Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:22:59 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.571.1294806486.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >> Notice the smiley face -> :D >> >> Yeah I didn't check the price, it's only 30$. But there's no telling if >> that would work either. Also, dirt cheap video cards are almost >> certainly going to cause problems. Even if the drivers worked >> perfectly, a year down the road things will start breaking down. Cheap >> hardware is cheap for a reason. > > Rediculous. All of the video cards I'm using are ultra-cheap ones that > are about 10 years old and they all work fine.
There's no reason why they would break. Few months ago I was reconfiguring an old server at work which still used two 16-bit 10 megabit ISA network cards. I fetched a kernel upgrade (2.6.27.something). It's a modern kernel which is still maintained and had up-to-date drivers for the 20 year old device! Those devices have no moving parts and are stored inside EMP & UPS protected strong server cases. How the heck could they break? Same thing, can't imagine how a video card could break. The old ones didn't even have massive cooling solutions, the chips didn't even need a heatsink. The only problem is driver support, but on Linux it mainly gets better over the years.
