Hey all,
just rebuilt a Linux machine (Ubuntu 10.10) and am thinking about buying a video card. I have 2 kids, so 50 bucks would be about most I’d be willing to spend on one if that’s possible.
Any reccomendations?
I think what I have in right now is ATI 850
I used to play with that, and it was OK.
I see that newegg has some NVidia 6200s for $40.
TIA, go GDF!
It’s that you close your post with “go GDF” or I would have said this thread doesn’t belong in the gaming section at all
Anyway, buying a Nvidia 6200 now, means you got to buy a new graphics card within 3 months again.
I personally wouldn’t buy anything lower then the 200 series.
Or if you must, the 9800 GTX.
Look on craigslist or ebay for a second hand one, they go for pretty cheap nowadays.
Don’t cheap out on hardware. Double your budget to get something decent.
Not top of the bill, but I guess you’re not going for it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/EVGA-NVIDIA-GeForce-8800-GTX-768P2N831AR-NEW-/230562403738?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item35ae97159a
$50 ? Linux ? Nvidia ?
something like 7600GT/7600GS[±10% to cost ±35% to performance between].
but i strongly suggest take look at GT8800/9800/GTX250/GTX450 in case of ETQW gaming, at least.
otherwise you forced to take hard tradeoff/choice of ETQW beauty of GFX versus smooth gameplay.
sadly.
AGP or PCI-E slot would be a big factor, if AGP, nVidia 7600 is prolly best bet. iirc, ATI doesn’t offer linux drivers for it’s AGP HD cards
ATi/AMD offer more tricky solutions for “AGP” cards.
and “AGP hotfix” drivers[created periodically. less frequently than mainline ones] 4 them.
but i can admit, Nvidia support their products, more solid, longer and on less discriminative basis[in all four aspects].
I can recommend the 7600GT, been using it with ETQW myself for quite some time. It’ll let you play on normal-high settings at a steady 30fps. If you want more, your game will be less pretty.
sooo ?
used 8800 cards[on G92 chips ONLY] was only option within buger w/decent performance in ETQW?