video card reco / help

sir-lancealot · 08-20-2007, 03:23 PM

Afternoon all, just given a new desktop at work, a dell xps210 and 2 nice 22' widescreen monitors.

Problem is there is only a single vga onboard and it's a 1/2 height box so I need a good card to run either dual DVI or dual vga as the monitors support both.

As I said, it needs a low profile and I have both an pci express x16 and x1 slot available. Dell in their chat said the only card I can use is the ATI Radeon X1300.

I have only used Nvidia chipsets at now stuck. Can anyone say the ATI will be fine, or have any other suggestions please feel free to give their .02.

I am running Fedora 7, not 2 much feedback googleing around so I now turn here! Thanks again for any posts / help.

Lr

DiBosco · 08-21-2007, 10:37 AM

Why the hell can you only run ATI? Sounds rubbish to me. In my experience, nVidia cards are better as at least they provide their own drivers which work well.

sir-lancealot · 08-22-2007, 10:10 AM

DiBosco, thank you for the reply, and I guess you answered before reading. It was Dell not I that said "You can only run that ATI Radeon card" which was the reason for the post, as the subject clearly stated, "Video card reco (where reco = reccomend) help" meaning more than a "Why the hell" and no card recomendations!

The original post also said I have ONLY used Nvidea chipsets and didn't want to go the ATI route, so I was looking for others who have either that desktop model, or could suggest an NVidea card which would support a duel DVI and MUST be a sff (small form factor) pci-e card.

I couldn't find any which is why I thought maybe someone could say, "Hey use the geforce xxx" and supply a model as I could not find one and that was Dell's only answer!

So if you do have a specific model (which it sounds like you don't) please feel free to post that!

farslayer · 08-22-2007, 10:49 AM

I would think any Low Profile card should work if it includes the low profile bracket..

JATON VIDEO-PX7200GS-LP GeForce 7200GS 128MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Low Profile Video Card with L-P Bracket - Retail

This Jaton card is also low profile with bracket.. and Dual VGA
http://db.jaton.com/VGAProductDetail...358KTWL-256ALP

Best of luck !

DiBosco · 08-22-2007, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sir-lancealot

DiBosco, thank you for the reply, and I guess you answered before reading. It was Dell not I that said "You can only run that ATI Radeon card" which was the reason for the post, as the subject clearly stated, "Video card reco (where reco = reccomend) help" meaning more than a "Why the hell" and no card recomendations!

The original post also said I have ONLY used Nvidea chipsets and didn't want to go the ATI route, so I was looking for others who have either that desktop model, or could suggest an NVidea card which would support a duel DVI and MUST be a sff (small form factor) pci-e card.

I couldn't find any which is why I thought maybe someone could say, "Hey use the geforce xxx" and supply a model as I could not find one and that was Dell's only answer!

So if you do have a specific model (which it sounds like you don't) please feel free to post that!

No, I did understand it was Dell that said it, I didn't imply otherwise! You didn't say that you were after a specific card recommendation, more that you just wanted to know other persons' two cents' worth on ATI and Linux! You need to be more specific in your questions and not use vague terminology like "reco".

As for specific models, any nVidia card will be fine as long as the form factor fits your PC.