[ale] opinion on video cards

Christopher S. Adams toiletduk at penguinpowered.com
Wed Jul 26 18:38:02 EDT 2000


actually, i've heard that 3dfx's win2k drivers are horrible
nvidia's drivers, which i have personal experience with, work without a
hitch

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kachline" <kachline at brightstar.gt.ed.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Jeb W Barger" <jeb_barger at yahoo.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] opinion on video cards


> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jeb W Barger wrote:
>
> > Anybody got any advice on a decent, cheap video cards
> > (AGP) that will work under RH6.2 and Win2K?
> <snip>
> Jeb,
>
> At work, I've got Dual headed display working on an AGP Voodoo3
> and PCI "number 9" using (a compiled, ie, not RH 6.2 "stock") XFree 4.0;
> so I would definately recommend the Voodoo3. At home I'm running a PCI
> Voodoo3 under Redhat 6.1, also with no problems.
> Pricewatch.com is showing these cards on the order of about $65 in
> cost, so, they're not too bad. I've found the Voodoo3 to be a
> great "workhorse" card under Linux.... I'm almost positive that it's
> support would be very good under Win2k too (It is under NT4 and '95), but,
> you'll have to hit 3dfx's site (or someone else could post their
> experiences).
>
> $0.02,
> - Mike
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