[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.
>
> _______________________________________________
> http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
--
Russell Lemburg
IC Technology, Inc.
1900 Preston Road, #267-303
Plano, TX 75093 USA
(214) 460-8504
cplusruss at gmail.com
More information about the Discuss
mailing list