[GLLUG] New Video Card Advice

[Basher584]

I personally like the Radeon series.  I have a RadeonVE, and 3D worked out of the box (er.. ISO) with Redhat 7.2.

I think for my next purchase I want to go with a R200[1] based card since you can get both open source and binary drivers [2].

I don't know about noise though.. 

1.  Explanation of naming scheme. http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ATIRadeon  All Radeon's up to (and not including) R300 have open source drivers.  R200 and up have binary drivers from ATI.  http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.asp?imodule=CTV9100128A5&cat=Video%20Card ($75).

2.  I have been pretty happy with the open source drivers (I only play games occasionally though.. ), but you need the binary drivers because of a patent issue with s3tc texture compression, and sometimes games don't have options to turn it off.


-Ben

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:29:31AM -0500, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:32, Brian Hoort wrote:
> > So far, system is:
> > Antec Quiet Media case (Overture)
> > ASUS A7V8X-X MB
> > Athlon 2400
> > 1 Gb RAM
> > 120 GB ATA Seagate 2MB cache(quiet)
> > etc.
>