[NTLUG:Discuss] video card recommendation

[Stephen Davidson]

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Its Radeon that I am having trouble with because of the broken drivers.
~ Found some that they release in January, so now flash works, but they
broke the ability for me to suspend my machine.  Hangs during wakeup now.

- -Steve

Stuart Johnston wrote:
| In general, I have had better luck with nvidia cards.  However, if you a
| planning to stick with the open drivers, ATI has made a commitment to
| improve the open drivers in the future.
|
| Ralph wrote:
|> Howdy,
|>   I want to build a system with a high end video card and I would like
|> to hear people's recommendations.  I have it narrowed down to two cards.
|>   eVGA 6200 LE with 256 meg ram
|>   ATI Radeon X600 256mb meg
|>  Both cards are PCI-E and are the first cards I will have bought with
|> that bus.  My previous high end card is a Ti4200/64mb bought at Chris
|> Cox's recommendation and it has done great.  I really can't see how it
|> could be improved, but the new system has no AGP slot and I can get
|> either of the two cards I mention for under $20, which seems like a lot
|> for a video card.
|>  The system is an Intel 915 based motherboard, if that makes a
|> difference.  I have a 3.4 GHz P4 to use in it and this is going to be a
|> general purpose computer.  I plan on staying with all open source
|> drivers for whichever I get.
|> Thanks,
|> Ralph
|>
|>
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