[NTLUG:Discuss] need video card advice

[Gilbert Morrow]

On 2/2/06, ntlug at levelofdetail.com <ntlug at levelofdetail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of building a machine with this fancy video card:
> Ooooh , would love one myself , if you have are going to have a PCIe go
> for it if you have a AGP Nvidia just released a 7800 GS AGP model , sure to
> please .
> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814121201
>
> I assume that with the 2 DVI ports I can have a dual monitor setup with
> the one card. Is this correct? (duh!) Would there be some reason to go
> with two video cards instead?
> Bragging rights , more FPS during game play.
> This will be for a fresh install - probably Ubuntu or another
> Debian-based distro. I don't know whether distributions generally
> recognize and configure two monitors on installation.
> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run install and have fun .
> Where is a good resource for how to have a dual monitor setup in Linux?
> Read me Nvidia web site.
> Any comments are appreciated.
>
> Ed
>
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