Best general purpose Video Card

timread · 10-20-2003, 07:29 AM

I have an old ATI video card that has never given good service (the X display was always a little fuzzy) under Linux and would like to update it and buy a newer one.

The monitor I use is a Sony 19" triniton @85Hz and I will probably use either Knoppix, for now, or a little later on Suse.

I am not interested in gaming, just in getting a cristal sharp X display without having to install any other drivers, etc. It needs to run out of the box.

Any suggestions?

Tim

dukeinlondon · 10-21-2003, 10:26 AM

My nvidia card works really well with the XFree nv driver in 2D. And the door to 3D remains open with their own driver.

EyesOnly · 10-21-2003, 02:07 PM

I have an ATI radeon 9000. it is a not too expensive card(+/- 80 euro at the time i bought it), but it still provides very good 3D performance.
It runs 2D out of the box, for 3D you will need their own driver