[NMLUG] Video Card Recommendations

[neosad1st at charter.net (Robert)]

On Sunday 31 October 2004 15:08, Aaron NMLUG 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.

Any GeForce PCI should be fine, check models versus features.

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