[NTLUG:Discuss] Video card recommendations

[Jay Urish]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Jay Urish wrote:
> 
>> I am about to put together the workstation server from hell.
>>
>> I am looking for video card recommendations. My new mobo will have the 
>> Pci-e or x-16 slot. I want to run dual head CRT's (Dell/Sony p1110's). 
>> Built in video capture would be awesome! If I can't get built in, 
>> suggestions for a well supported cap card would be welcome!
>>
>> I will be running mandriva 10.1 official.
>>
>> Everything will be intel. I am going with the Dual core proc and mobo 
>> and 2gb of ram.
>>
> ...workstation server (isn't that an oxymoron?)

Well, I plan on 4 250GB SATA2 drives striped in a RAID with a 64M cache 
controller.

I plan on having this thing sitting on my desk and serving HTTP and 
doing email stuff using communigate pro.

I also plan to use this jobby as my day-to-day workstation.. For surfing
  and copying cd's/dvd's authoring dvd's etc...

> 
> ...from hell (wouldn't that be a refurbished Pentium 233MMX system with 
> 96 meg of ram and a 6 gig hard drive?? )


lol yea!

> 
> Sounds like your system would be from some other place....
> 
> As for dual head video cards.. I purchased some dual head NVIDIA based 
> cards with DVI+svga AND a separate dual-headed VGA (db15).  The card had 
> 256Meg of Ram..and was AGP 8x. I can get the exact model number later if 
> you want...IF that is the kind of card you are talking about.
> 

Nope.. .I need PCI express... I won't have an AGP slot.


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