[TriLUG] video card recommendations

Andrew Perrin clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Mon Feb 2 08:57:39 EST 2004


I have a cheap nVidia geForce MX card - I paid certainly less than $50 for
it last year when I built my machine. Works fine, fast and reliable.

ap

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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Steve Kuekes wrote:

> I am going to convert my main home desktop from windows to linux.  This
> will also involve getting a new system unit.  My question is what are
> the groups recommendations for a reasonably priced video card for that
> system.  I am looking at a Athlon 2800 or something like it for the
> processor and I'd like to get a video card that will keep the
> performance of X apps up.  I just want to run office type apps and
> web-browsing and email, no linux games.  Also, is anyone running quicken
> under Wine or win4lin or something.  Does it work right?
>
> I tried to search the archives as I remember this being asked before,
> but I'm having problems with the searcher (See previous post).
>
> Thanks.
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