[NMLUG] Video Card Recommendations

[matthew.mccleary at gmail.com (Matthew McCleary)]

There were older ATI Radeon cards made in the PCI form factor, that
would work well for what you want.

Also, the Matrox G4x0 series was, and is, nice for Linux. Extremely
fast for 2d, will do some 3d (but slowly), very well supported, and
you can get it in PCI.

Matthew


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:08:10 -0700 (MST), Aaron NMLUG <aaron@boim.com> 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.
> 
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