My desktop machine croaked on Sunday. On Tuesday I visited that fine emporium of well priced, used equipment -- The Free Geek Thrift Store -- and acquired a "new" machine. It has most of what I wanted, and I upgraded most of the rest. The Sony VAIO box includes:
Intel D915GRO motherboard Pentium 4 3.00 GHz 4 GB RAM 500 GB SATA hard drive Ubuntu 10.04 is up and running. Unfortunately Free Geek didn't have any nVidia cards yesterday so I'm now looking for that upgrade. The motherboard includes an "Intel Graphic Media Accelerator 900, 224MB Max. dynamically allocated shared video memory. It also has "One PCI Express x16 slot" and "One PCI Express x 1 slot". My old machine had an AGP slot into which my old nVidia card went. I have not kept up with video card technology so I'm not sure on what to focus as I look through the nVidia options. I'm guessing that PCI Express x 16 is better than x 1. Beyond that the only other thing that may be important is that I also got a ViewSonic VG2030wm monitor that has both an analog input and a DVI-D input. From that I'm assuming that I need to be looking at nVidia cards that are PCI Express x 16 and have a DVI-D output. Anything else that I need to know? Second question: Is it possible to use both the on-board video and the PCI Express at the same time (going to different monitors, of course)? Thanks for all advice, tips, pointers, etc. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
