Mat Branyon wrote: >I am in the market for a new video card.. I need a dual head (both vga >connections) card, with hardware 3d support. I have two nvidia cards >now, and dont really like the hardware 3d support (takes roughly 5 >minutes to start x) > >I was wondering what you guys would suggest. Should I go ati or >nvidia? What is being used out there, and is it satisfactory? etc... > >thanks > > > I went through several EXPENSIVE and not so expensive video cards to try a dual head configuration in RH8. I ended up with a fairly cheap card that I have been extremely pleased with. It worked EXACTLY as I wanted it to. Also, I had more problems with ATI cards than anything... Even the $400 ATI 9700 pro that I tried.
The card that I am using now is a Matrox G450 and it had the hardware acceleration support without any special drivers, kernel modules, etc. X takes about 4-5 seconds to come up. This is on a AMD XP1800 system. Hope this helps, Shannon
