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[NMLUG] Video Card Recommendations
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:08:10 -0700 (MST), you wrote:
>I'm building a new LINUX workstation.
>I have a dual 1GHz motherboard, intended for servers.
>
>Odd thing is that it does NOT have an AGP slot...
>just PCI.
>
>Can anybody recommend a decent but cheap PCI video
>card (assuming they even exist these days)?
>I don't care much about 3d, but 2d accell is nice.
>I would like to be able to support 1600x1200 resolution
>at a decent (>75Hz) rate. 1900x(whatever is standard... 1400-1600?)
>would be nice. (My monitor WILL handle that)
>I was hoping that a vanilla video card in the $50 neighborhood
>might exist.
>
>The only PCI video card I have is ATI Mach-64.
>It barely has enough memory for 1280x1024 as I recall.
Some of the Nvidia Geforce video cards are available on PCI. At this
moment there are 64 choices on eBay:
http://search.ebay.com/geforce-pci_W0QQsofocusZbsQQsbrftogZ1QQfromZR10QQsacategoryZ-1Q26catrefQ3DC6QQsosortpropertyZ2Q26sosortorderQ3D2QQcoactionZcompareQQcopagenumZ1QQcoentrypageZsearch
Steve
Stephen B. Browne
sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
"Ubi bene, ibi patria."
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