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Re: [PLUG] Video card recommendations?
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Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
On Oct 25, 2004, at 6:28 AM, eric@lucii.org wrote:
What cards have you used that you'd recommend? I do very little
gaming but
would like some 3D acceleration for those rare occasions when I do.
Cost
is an object... keeping it under $100 - way under if possible :-)
Oh, and
it should not have a fan... that's how the last one got toasted :-(
IMO, you can't go wrong with ATi. Almost all of their cards work with
DRI/DRM on Linux and they don't generally require external drivers,
either, which means you probably have support for them lying around
waiting to be turned on. Also, for the same price point, ATi is
generally a little bit better than NVIDIA (for video cards). Check out
eBay or NewEgg.com and sort by lowest price first; you should be able
to find a Radeon 7000 or something similar for what you are looking to
spend.
I could sell you a Radeon VE, which is like the 7000 with dual-head
output. I know it works under Linux. It's AGP 2x with 32MB RAM.
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