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hi people i will buy an video card and need help anybody can recommend??????/ i will buy an 256mb

If you're going to be using Linux at all, I'd reccomend getting a nvidia card over the ATI because of drivers. Otherwise, take a look at http://www.tomshardware.com/index.html for reviews of cards in your price range.

We use both here at work (major biomedical). Were going to Nvidia. Less problems and the drivers work great for the high end apps. nVidia Quadro FX 1400 Dual monitors modeling protiens.

i'll try to be as laconical as i could be...

if you want to play games => geforce
if you want to have some work done => Ati

... depends on the games, dude . Part of them work better with ATI, other with Nvidia!

go on ebay and get an nvidia 6600 (mind you... i said 6600, not 6800
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I can second the 6600 comment, I have a beautiful 6600GT here, love it:D

Sure it cost me like $700AU new but it'll last me a good few years yet so it was probably worth it.

Tim wrote:I can second the 6600 comment, I have a beautiful 6600GT here, love it:D

Sure it cost me like $700AU new but it'll last me a good few years yet so it was probably worth it.

is your 6600GT 256mb...
just wondering cuz i've never seen one

That it is, its also SLI capable but I bought the cheaper version of my motherboard which doesn't support SLI

...not that I would have bought 2 of these beasts anyway, my wallet doesn't stretch that far

I have the MSI NX6600GT on a pure 64bit Linux, running fine with the latest nvidia driver, I just had problems with setting up the 32bit compatiblity drivers, seems the system ones were in the way, but couldnt get cedega to work so far, so i cant exactly tell if it really is a problem .
Only stupid thing was... I didnt have the money for a sock 939 CPU and there is no SLI board for sock 734, so... .
the nforce chipset driver are a bit limited (compared to the many feature in winxp), but audio, lan and sata drivers work fine (dont forget to have scsi hard disc support enabled in kernel... seems sata is using the scsi interface in linux)