[ale] Video Card Recommendations

[Scott Castaline]

Jim wrote:
> James Taylor wrote:
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>> Every single NVidia card I've installed (at least a couple of dozen and counting) has worked perfectly using proprietary drivers.
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>> ATI cards have worked well also.  Previous to the recent driver enhancements I had to do a lot of prep to install them, but now they are very easy to set up and work well.
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>> Intel cards work, but the open source drivers they provide create a massive vacuum.
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>> -jt
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>> The GeForce series has been on the market for years and I would expect no problems.
>> I don't know about PNY in particular, but assuming the card is reliable the drivers will work well.
>> -jt
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>> James Taylor
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>>>>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at  5:20 PM, in message <45DA22A3.4030402 at charter.net>,
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>> Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote: 
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>>> Jim Philips wrote:
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>>>> On Monday 19 February 2007 04:38:31 pm Scott Castaline wrote:
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>>>>> Having trouble with my embedded video and FC6, so I've been looking for
>>>>> a replacement option. My MoBo supports 33MHz and is PCI2.2 compliant.
>>>>> I'd rather not spend alot, especially since I'm not a gamer, but do some
>>>>> photo editing and such.
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>>>> I know people complain about proprietary drivers and all of that, but nVidia 
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>>>> has always been very good for me. Buy any mid- level card with a decent amount 
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>>>> of RAM and you'll be happy. I think they are very attentive to the Linux 
>>>> community.
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>>> Any feelings towards PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200
>>> http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3968065
>>> it supposed to have 256MB and looks to be priced right.(under $60)
>>> I'm I looking for trouble going this route?
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> I've installed two different GeForce cards (one was a PNY) in the last 
> couple of months and both are working flawlessly.  I've run them with 
> and without the nvidia drivers and there are no problems either way.  I 
> can't image that the 5200 would be any different.
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> Jim
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Went ahead and ordered from Circuit City the FX 5200 on-line. Should 
have it tomorrow. I'll keep you posted. Thanks to all for your 
suggestions. It is also good to know that it'll probably work with 
generic drivers as I thought it would, but more than likely any special 
features would only be accessed through the proprietary software.