video card recommendation ?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 16:28 +0100, David Fletcher wrote: 
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 00:06 +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > Get yerself a really nice nVidia card and be done with all the BS mate.
> 
> It depends on the application. If all you're doing is email, browsing,
> word processing etc. there's no point spending a load of money. Plus the
> more expensive the board, the more electricity it's likely to consume.
> There's no point in paying for power you're not going to use.
> 
> The last one I bought, for my son's new PC, is an Asus manufactured,
> fanless, ATI chipped board, cost about 30 quid I think and it's
> absolutely perfect for the application.

I have had my best luck with nVidia cards. Even old crusty ones, like a
5500 will do fine. They go for $20-30 online. More vram the better
though, get 256 meg or better. I crowd the heck out of my video cards,
running some pretty intensive 3D applications. Myself, I've seen way too
many people weeping at their ATI's performance in forums, especially
with Linux. My two cents, Ric

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