Advice to upgrade graphics card

[jerry]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 19:05 +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> If you don't mind using proprietary drivers, go for an NVIDIA board.
>> Their Linux drivers are excellent.
>>
>> If you insist on open-source purism... Pick ATI which has shown a better
>> attitude in publishing specs... so open source drivers are out, but they
>> are not as fancy as the NVIDIA ones.
>>
>> Gilles.
>>     
>
> Seconded. While ATI cards are cheaper, and may seem like a good deal,
> nVidia is really the way to go if you plan on doing anything 3D on your
> computer.
>
> Just be aware...since you have an AGP graphics slot, you may have
> difficulties finding a new graphics card. Make sure that the one you buy
> is an AGP slot card, not a PCIe card (if you have a free PCI slot, you
> might be able to get a regular PCI card, but the performance will be
> worse).  
>
>
>   
Thanks Giles and Andrew. I found a geforce 7600 GS card. Looking forward 
to getting compiz running.
Jerry