On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:36:15 -0400 Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/24/2015 03:23 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > I have an AMD HD5450 card in my desktop, which has been mostly > > adequate for me, but now it is time to retire it. > > > > Can anyone recommend a more recent card that works well with X? I'm > > using two screens, so I will need at least two outputs - preferably > > digital. I have been quite happy with AMD, so I'd like to stick with > > that, and I prefer not using the fglrx driver if possible. One > > thing that would be nice is hardware decoding of video, with > > something later than UVD2. > > > > At some point I will probably also need to get a third screen, so > > something that has three outputs or would run nicely with a second > > video card that has additional outputs is a big bonus. > > > > I use no 3D software, no games, and nothing I can think of that > > needs a powerful GPU. It might be nice with 4K support, though. > > > > Everything online talks about what cards to get for gaming, but > > that is irrelevant to me. > > Actually it is relevant. People use "gaming" as a benchmark. If it > works well for gaming, then you are set, just in case you find that > you actually need some horsepower, or don't want to be annoyed with > tearing, etc. You just never know. Especially if you want to drive > multi-monitors with multi-cards. I can understand that, but recent cards tend to have much more power that I need, and hence be much pricier than necessary. The cards that are suitable for desktop use that still has video decoding and 4K are few and far between. > AMD and Intel have been less than stellar, in the past, for > higher-end support. Just a quick search finds an older nvidia GT610 > PciE with 2 gigs of vram for $40 with free shipping on Amazon. I'm > running two older GT520's for four monitors. Works a charm with the > nvidia drivers and tweaking the bios to turn off the built-in video. > I did have to install a larger power supply to keep it all from > over-heating, the average 500 watt supply is too marginal for this > load, IMHO. Thanks, I'll look these up and read the specs. When I first bought this machine I got an 850W high-end power supply, so I should be set :) > Be sure to check for the openGL version which should be equal to or > higher than version 2.0. So, IMHO it's better to have too much, than > not enough! But, that is just my two cents:) Ric Why is that? What do I need OpenGL for? I'd wager that any card with 4K support would probably have a recent OpenGL stack, though. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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