> GeForce 6600 256MB PCI Express
> 
> Are there any problems with drivers for this card.

Not that I can see. SUSE 10.0 installed on it without a hitch, with the
open source 2D driver. I went into yast and clicked on install nvidia
driver, and it did it all by itself (but it might pay to copy your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to xorg.conf-nvidia-oss first - even if you only want
it for comparison later).

> And are they fast

Speed is relative. The 6200 tend to be 6200TC (Turbo Castrated, the 'net
indicates their performance is not as one might expect). The 6600 seem
to have mid-range performance, the 6800 at the top end. Depends on how
much you want to spend, on what you want it for. There is precious
little software other than games which can make use of 3D, and then I
question whether the 6800 brings any more benefit. At almost twice the
price for no gain I draw the line.

You can get a 6600 card from Gigabyte which has a big-heatsink
passive-cooled construction and which doesn't take in the slot on the
left as well. Graphics card fans tend to be big, unreliable, and very
noisy, despite what the manufacturers claim. You'll still need some air
draft over the heat sink (running it at 100° is reliable but probably
impacts on life expectency), but you can use a good $15 fan silenced by
a series resistor and mounted in the case in the way you want it. There
is no 6800 with passive cooling, nor a 6200 one which isn't 6200TC.

I don't know much about the 7xxx range, other than that they're $$$.

> What kind of screen resolution can they be run at

The card's specs will tell you that reliably, and how many colours you
get with that at which frequency. Typically much more than your monitor
can handle anyway, especially if you have an LCD. I think all the 6600
cards and up can run two monitors for extra-wide-screen tricks.

Volker

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