[NTLUG:Discuss] video card recommendation

Russell Lemburg cplusruss at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 14:38:32 CDT 2008


If retirement isn't too important, I'd go with an Nvidia Quadro FX 5600.
Linux drivers work great.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:

> Chris Cox wrote:
> > Ralph wrote:
> >> Chris,
> >>   What new Intel card is this?  I actually had to make the decision this
> >> afternoon because the ebay auction was ending on one of them.  I went
> >> crazy and spent $22.50 on the Radeon x600.  I hope I don't regret
> >> blowing that much on a video card.  It has more ram on it than several
> >> of my working systems(individually, that is).  The nVidia was a rebate
> >> deal, so I would have had to put out almost $70 for now.
> >> Ralph
> >
> > Shhh!  You're not supposed to know about the Intel card.
> >
> > Like I said, Intel hasn't released it yet.... I don't have a time frame.
> >
> > I'm sticking it out with Nvidia for now (personally).  Last ATI card
> > I even remotely enjoyed was my Mach32 based Graphics Ultra Pro.  Even so,
> > the drivers under Windows and Linux were buggy.
>
> A forgotten horse not in this scenario is Matrox.  Sure it's old, but
> the support under Linux was (is?) pretty good.  Solid 2D and marginal
> 3D card.  Not sure what they have on the PCIe end.
>
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