[NTLUG:Discuss] Video Card Recommendation?

[Ralph Green, Jr]

Howdy,
  I think I have the perfect board for you.  I would recommend a dual
head Matrox G450.  They are well supported in Linux, have very good 2D
performance and a great picture.  The dual head lets you add a second
monitor, if you want one.  The best part is they are cheap.  $25 or so
on eBay.

  They have two faults that I know of.  Neither should affect you.  They
are not the best for games because of minimal 3D support.  They are bad
for some new motherboards.  They left off a notch that newer
motherboards use to detect that they are a high voltage card(3.3V, I
think)  Some new motherboards will self destruct if such a video card is
plugged in.  Your motherboard should be safe.  It is a Serverworks or a
GX chipset, right?
Good luck,
Ralph

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 17:56, Cameron, Thomas wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
> I need a decent video card for my development machine, a dual
>  Xeon 1GHz Dell Precision Workstation 620.  I bought a Best
>  Data GeForce4 MX 440-8X from Fry's but RHEL 2.1 doesn't like
>  it.  I need something that will run 1280x1024 at 72Hz, no
>  gaming or 3D anything, just development work.
=