May I suggest looking out for GeForce FX5800Us. Myself and a friend managed to pick an unused pair up a few months ago for very little money and they are quite frankly 'storming' cards.
They have a 500Mhz GPU and 1000Mhz (DDR) memory on 128bit bus and manage to keep up with the higher-spec 5900/U's by using sheer brute-force clocks rather than wider memory busses. The catch with the card is the FlowFX system which is *fairly* noisy but not louder than a modern air-cooled high-performance PC. Plus they run a treat with Linux and are fully supported by the Nvidia driver set including temp sensing etc. On Friday 17 Dec 2004 23:36, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > I hope this isn't too off topic ... > > I am involved with a project where we are going to setup a multi-channel > visual system running flightgear. (3 PC's, 3 monitors.) We can budget > about $150-200 for the graphics cards, but the landscape has changed so > much since I last shopped I'm not sure what to do. We are committed to > buying something nvidia/GeForce based. The new 6800 cards are still way > out of our price range. The 5900/5950 cards are probably a bit high > right now too. But I see there area 5200's, 5500's, 5700's. and you can > still find the older ti4600/4800 cards floating around too. I know that > some of these varients were designed more as low end/cheap consumer > cards, and I'd like to get something with the best > capability/performance I can within our budget. Does anyone have any > recommendations? > > Thanks, > > Curt. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
