I might add to avoid using on board video or video cards like my own, an
NVIDIA based LE 6200, that uses system RAM. Even if you aren't doing
games. You are using only 1GB of RAM.
Alan
On 8/22/07, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Am Dienstag 21 August 2007 13:41:39 schrieb brullo nulla:
> > > > I have an old but functional ATI Radeon 9200SE. Won't it work
> anymore?
> > > > If there's something better, with decent 3D supported and onboard,
> let
> > > > me know...
> > >
> > > emm.. since most boards don't have agp anymore. No, it won't. And even
> if
> > > it works.. I am not sure that the 9200SE would be really faster than
> > > todays onboard solutions...
> >
> > OK. I didn't know that agp has been dropped (I really am not into
> > hardware, that's why I'm writing). So is everything PCI? What kind of
> > videocard should I look for? IIRC, Intel onboard videocards were well
> > supported open source...
> >
> > m.
>
> Not PCI (although it is still an option if you don't need high speed),
> it's
> all PCI-Express (short PCI-E). Intel onboard is okay, if you need a
> dedicated
> card (playing games with Cedega, multiple displays, stuff like that),
> stick
> with NVidia.
>
>
--
Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one
non-existent."
---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,
