The voodoo 3 3000 is now an old card (works fine, but old) my suggestion would be to figure out how much you want to invest in a video card and well... choose from there. From my experience (perhaps limited) nVidia seems to have better drivers for Linux, but my experience with ATI is limited to older cards. I heard the Radeon 9700 is the fastest card on the market now, but like all things wait a while and its obsolete (see voodoo 3 3000). If I where a rich man I wouldn't have to judge price/performance I would just buy the best when it came out but...
--- Kiran On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear friends, > > My son would like powerfull games runing in my double Win98/Mandrake 9.0 > desktop computer and my wonderfull Voodoo3 3000 is now having some > problems to run properly some of the games hi likes. > > Conclusion: I am thinking about a new video card but, of course I like > one that can run well, including DRI, under both OS (I don't wont lose > my Chromium, Quake III, Tuxracer and so on games under linux). > > I have heard about TNT2, Geforce, Geforce2, Geforce3, Ati Radeon, > Matrox...... and I am very confused. It should be a card with at least > 32 Mb Ram, AGP conection, DRI (aceleration).... but I need your advice; > I know that some Nvidia are very good, including TV-output utilities, > but the modules are just binaries; ATI seems, at least until now, to be > more related with the Open Source world and also some of them have > tv-output utilities.... > > Probably there are lots of expert-list members and people of the > mandrake team > that have good experiencies runing Mandrake 9.0 and some of those cards. > Please, could you help me to select one. > > Thanks so much in advance > > Francisco Alcaraz > Murcia (Spain) > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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