suggested 3d pci-e modern video card for Xorg

Stephen Heuer sheuer at member.fsf.org
Tue Feb 21 14:34:43 PST 2006


I have a nvidia 6600gt and i have no problem. It runs ut2004 on
highest settings at 1600x1200, and it does a good job running world of
warcraft. if you dont mind that you have to use non open source
drivers i have found that nvidia's are much better then ati's.

good luck.

On 2/20/06, Philippe Bourcier <buffalo.phil at free.fr> wrote:
>     hi all,
>
>   my last post didn't reach, so I re-send it:
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Philippe Bourcier <buffalo.phil at free.fr> -----
>
> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:03:45 +0100
> From: Philippe Bourcier <buffalo.phil at free.fr>
> To: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: 3d pci-e 'modern' card (Was: Re: Suggested video cards for Xorg)
>
>     hi all,
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:04:42AM -0800, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone can recommed any video cards that have really good success with xorg and its configuration utitlity.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > P.S.  I have a Radeon 7200 AGP card. It wasn't a trivial task to manually setup the conf file to get it to work.
>
>   I'd like to buy a pci-express x 16 3d graphic card. I looked
> about gpl drivers, and founded only radeon r300, wich seems to
> stay in cvs. So, I finally think to a nvidia 6600gt.
> I do not need so much 3d (no games). Just I want a «up-to-date»
> graphic card.
> Any advice? Thx
>
>     best regards,
>
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