[TriLUG] Video card recommendations

[Matthew Lavigne]

On Thursday 11 December 2003 10:24, Ron Joffe wrote:
How much to spend?  The FX3000 (professional version of the FX5900) will do 
just that and runs fine on Linux (with the nvidia binaries).  One card that 
has dual DVI ouput BUT you need to have a 300+ Watt PS.  Let me know if you 
want to talk more on it as I can give you fairly detailed info on the 
capabilies of the card.

Matthew


> Hey folks,
>
> I am looking for a video card recommendation / experiences.
>
> What I need is either a single card, or two cards which will provide two
> outputs (DVI) at 1600x1200. I'm not looking for gaming cards, but 2-D
> drafting type applications. I have both pci and AGP slots available to me,
> and of course it has to play with Linux.
>
> Any recommendations, horror stories, etc.
>
> I have always stuck with Matrox cards for this application, but I figured I
> might ask around and see what others use.
>
>
> Ron