[mdlug] video card recommendation?

[Michael Mikowski]

Hi Dean:

I'm with Wolfger.  Do yourself a *huge* favor and buy NVidia; at this point, the tools and performance are vastly superior to ATI, although it appears that may change in the next few months.  nvidia-settings is excellent for dynamically adjusting your X server as you add or detach displays.

The 7XXX series is very well supported (e.g. 7800 GTX), even in SLI (yes, I had an SLI Linux rig once; it was great for UT2003, but overkill for my purposes).  The 8XXX series at last report did not significantly exceed the 7XXX cards in performance.  So you might skip the 8XXX series unless you a) really want cutting edge performance and are willing to wait for the drivers on Linux; or b) find a 8XXX series card for a comparable price (e.g. the 8300 GS).

$0.02

Cheers, Mike

p.s. Just bought me mum a Ubuntu Linux Dell (Inspiron 530) for x-mas.   Promptly dumped Ubuntu 7.04 for Kubuntu 7.10.  It was great to have all hardware pre-certified for Linux, and it included Nvidia 8300GS which performs great with most games and Google Earth.  The base box was $499 with 1G memory and 250GB HD; a 22" samsung widescreen added around $115.  Quite a bargain -- 2 years ago, the screen *alone* would have cost more than the entire system.  Highly recommended.

----- Original Message ----
From: Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 5:56:53 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] video card recommendation?


I love Nvidia for Linux. I'm using a GeForce 7100 GS (or is it GX?).
Nivida without 3D acceleration works fantastic with Free drivers, and
Nvidia writes proprietary drivers for Linux that get the 3D working.

On Dec 24, 2007 4:42 PM, Dean Durant <mdlug at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hello, I am looking for a video card for Mepis 6.5.    What I have
 now is built in video on the mobo on a cheap box I bought off the net.  
 The video has some issues, like lines across the page in certain apps.
   So I'm thinking it's the hardware, not Mepis.   I don't know what
 kind of slots the mobo has.    Is there a good brand of card that is
 designed to work with Linux?    Are there video card vendors that are
 sympathetic to linux?    Thanks, Dean
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