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Users / What graphics card to buy?
« on: October 24, 2007, 03:38:10 pm »
Hi I'm getting really confused about what graphic card to buy?
I'm not looking for anything expensive and currently thinking about these cards:
Club 3D GeForce 7200GS:
http://www.macwarehouse.co.uk/catalogue/item/V0004774
ASUS EN7300LE/HTD:
http://www.pyramid.com/Product.aspx?StockCode=292155
It just seems like every card I search for in the forum have some kind of problems or not able to run UI2 with alpha or UI3.
And the high end cards 8XXX seem to be badly supported in Linux...
So It leaves me:
1. Don't buy Ati.
2. Don't buy to "high end" card.
3. Don't buy card with to little ram.
So my question is, what is left?
Would it be possible to have some "working out of the box" hardware list or thread?
Well it does not help that I'm a new Linux user so messing around with config files and stuff to get the hardware working still makes my brain hurt a little bit 
This is my current hardware:
Case: Antec VERIS Fusion 430 -EC
Motherboard: ASRock 4Core1333-FullHD
Cpu: Core 2 Duo E4400 2 GHz
Ram: Kingston ValueRAM PC2-5300CL5 / 667 MHz
Video: Integrated ATI X1250 (and not installed FX5200)
I'm not looking for anything expensive and currently thinking about these cards:
Club 3D GeForce 7200GS:
http://www.macwarehouse.co.uk/catalogue/item/V0004774
ASUS EN7300LE/HTD:
http://www.pyramid.com/Product.aspx?StockCode=292155
It just seems like every card I search for in the forum have some kind of problems or not able to run UI2 with alpha or UI3.
And the high end cards 8XXX seem to be badly supported in Linux...
So It leaves me:
1. Don't buy Ati.
2. Don't buy to "high end" card.
3. Don't buy card with to little ram.
So my question is, what is left?
Would it be possible to have some "working out of the box" hardware list or thread?
Well it does not help that I'm a new Linux user
so messing around with config files and stuff to get the hardware working still makes my brain hurt a little bit This is my current hardware:
Case: Antec VERIS Fusion 430 -EC
Motherboard: ASRock 4Core1333-FullHD
Cpu: Core 2 Duo E4400 2 GHz
Ram: Kingston ValueRAM PC2-5300CL5 / 667 MHz
Video: Integrated ATI X1250 (and not installed FX5200)
