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Re: Video card recommendation?



A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Can anybody recomend a good video card to get with a new system? I'd
> like something that'll give me good performance in XFree86... I'll also
> have a Windows partition for games, so decent 3D performance under both
> OpenGl and DirectX is also an issue. (OTOH, my taste in games runs more
> towards adventures and strategy games than action games, so 3D performance 
> doesn't have to be absolutely state of the art.)
> 
> Any suggestions? What cards have other people had good results with?

I hear good things about the Matrox G400 - exellent support for Linux (as
long as you're using a recent release of XFree - if you use potato you're
fine), and (from what I hear) it has exellent 3D performance.  It's also
very fast - faster than my G200, from my experience.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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