[NTLUG:Discuss] re: video card recommendations
Jay Urish
j at unixwolf.net
Tue Aug 23 10:16:55 CDT 2005
Fred wrote:
> Jay wrote:
> "I guess since I wont be playing any games, I could go to a server
> board that HAS PCI-X and just get the best damn PCI video card I can
> find. I just want high res for video editing and the GUI(KDE)"
>
> ???
>
> If you aren't playing games and don't need the graphics engine to
> draw your Warhammer scenes, if you are editing video and needing
> cripness in the display, just about any 128 meg or bigger video card
> will do. The key at that point is a damn fine monitor, which still
> happens to be crt-based. 1600 at least, 20" diag at least.
>
I will be using two dell p1110's.
Actually, If I can play games under linux, then I will go ahead and get
the snazzy card..
Can you play Quake under linux?
> One of my clients has a very good video card in her system but kept
> complaining about not being able to read license tag numbers on her
> lcd monitor. I put in a $40 surplus 17" crt monitor and now I walk on
> water - according to her. Oh, yeah. that lcd monitor is on my wife's
> puter now, 'cause the client didn't want that "piece of crap" in her
> office. Fair trade, I thought.
>
> Fred Stevens
> Stevens Systems
>
>
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