Hi there, Jonathan Hepburn wrote:
So I need a new graphics card. I have: Debian testing, with current-release X.org and all the DRI goodness that this implies. Athlon 2600+, 32 bit 1-1.5GB RAM, depending on if I can get them working together properly. Currently, an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400, 128MB RAM
Is your current card AGP or PCI slot based? If its AGP then you should be able to upgrade quite easily. If its a PCI based card and your system does not have an AGP slot then things may not be so easy...the limited bandwidth of the PCI bus means you may not be able to get a card capable of doing a decent job of Flightgear, unless you compromise on screen resolution or on visual quality...
So my question is: What's the current equivalent of an MX400, from NVidia or ATI, and what's one step up? I'm not really in a position to go much over about $150 Australian, call it $115US or 90Euro at
Something like an NVidia GeForce 6200 with AGP 8x bus will be several steps up from the MX400, provided you have AGP...these can be had from less than AU$100... If you can stretch to just under AU$200 you can get an NVidia GeForce 6600 with 256MB video RAM...that will be a few steps up from the 6200 again... Either of those with the latest proprietary driver from NVidia will be more than adequate to display Flightgear with full eye- candy at OK resolutions... Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
