best new video cards for linux?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Jul 10 10:21:04 EDT 2003


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:52:25 +0000
dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

> Sounds like a good time to buy a Matrox or ATI card.
> 
> They're well supported under X and W2K, with great 2D performance. 
> 
> A Matrox G450 with 32MB supports two monitors and runs about $80. This
> is probably the best color accuracy choice. These are widely available
> in both AGP and PCI versions, and coexist nicely with each other and
> other video cards for multimonitor applications.
> 
> An ATI Radeon 7000 with 32MB supports one monitor and a TV or LCD for
> about $40.
The nVidia GeForce cards are supposed to be excellent, and nVidia
supports Linux by making their drivers available to the Linux and
FreeBSD communities. 

(Take my advice with a grain of salt as I have a 3dfx VooDoo3. 


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