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I noticed that the g450 series only comes in 16mb and 32mb (if more, i cant afford it). It seems that they are made for applications like CAD and whatnot, do you know if they do well for games? Cause when i say i need good 3d acceleration, its for games :) --mat On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 17:06, Shannon Roddy wrote: > Mat Branyon wrote: >=20 > >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 > > > > =20 > > > I went through several EXPENSIVE and not so expensive video cards to try=20 > a dual head configuration in RH8. I ended up with a fairly cheap card=20 > that I have been extremely pleased with. It worked EXACTLY as I wanted=20 > it to. Also, I had more problems with ATI cards than anything... Even=20 > the $400 ATI 9700 pro that I tried. >=20 > The card that I am using now is a Matrox G450 and it had the hardware=20 > acceleration support without any special drivers, kernel modules, etc. =20 > X takes about 4-5 seconds to come up. This is on a AMD XP1800 system. >=20 > Hope this helps, > Shannon >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --=-XClyWy4lNIxdgQMfrovL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA++6RhadbUG229XJoRAmpzAJ9NZ2pv6+TkqqvNrYfXN/Z5VPAE2QCfcJAc imh77pkMvyIdFHk0tWmc5K0= =Xwor -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XClyWy4lNIxdgQMfrovL--
