On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 13:55 -0700, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > 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?
Not really, you could look for two DVI outs for a little more flexability. > > 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)? I can't vouch for that particular board, but I have gotten Intel Motherboards to run both on-board and PCI-express video at the same time. With two on the PCI-express slot, you could do three at once. > > Thanks for all advice, tips, pointers, etc. > Good Luck, Derek Loree _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug