On Monday 13 Jun 2011 18:11:58 Rob Beard wrote: > On 13/06/11 17:27, Philip Newborough wrote: > > Hello Peeps > > > > I have a Dell Studio 540 system with integrated Intel i915(?) graphics > > controller. The system works well, but I am wondering if it would > > benefit from an upgrade? I am looking at purchasing an NVIDIA card, > > but I am somewhat lost as to which one. I am not too bothered about it > > being the best on the market, I am not a gamer, but I would like it to > > perform well at HD media playback and possibly recording some > > screencasts. > > > > Any help with this would be gratefully appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- Philip > > Probably the Geforce 210, you can get one here for just under £24 plus > delivery from ebuyer.com: > > http://www.ebuyer.com/product/240886 > > (Also includes a Street Fighter 4 download voucher, although I expect > it's probably not much use, but you could always pass it on to someone > who has Windows and plays games). > > It should be well supported with the proprietary NVidia driver and it > supports VDPAU for HD video acceleration in mplayer and MythTV. > > Actually I didn't realise they were so cheap now, might pick one up for > the kids PC.
I have the PNY 210 installed on 3 computers and it works great with 10.10, I am having trouble getting it to work properly with 11.04 - hardware acceleration of Flash video doesn't seem to be working. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
