[NTLUG:Discuss] video card recommendation

[Stephen Davidson]

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'Scuse me, I meant nVidia, NOT Radeon!
I've not had trouble with my ATI cards -- although I will confess that I
have not been pushing that machine, either.

- -Steve

Stephen Davidson wrote:
| ???
| 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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