On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:45 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 03:59, Piotr wrote: > > Dnia wtorek 08 lutego 2005 03:38, Rick van Hattem napisaÅ: > > > On Tuesday 08 February 2005 03:52, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > I'd like to upgrade my system with a more powerful graphics card. > > > > Presently, I have a VT8375 Video Card built into the motherboard. As > > > > far as I can tell, this does not allow any accelerated graphics > > > > processing capability, so I'm left with basic software graphics > > > > support for games like Quake2, and others simply do not run at regular > > > > speed (if at all). > > > > > > > > Looking on Pricewatch.com, there are a number of video cards > > > > available. What is the best value (and the easist to install) for a > > > > linux system? I'd like high speed graphics for games, and may also > > > > want to have video capture capability in future so that I can convert > > > > my PAL video collection over to DVD. > > > > > > > > A friend of mine recommended nvidia, as they have a few pieces of > > > > support software for linux to handle setup etc. > > > > > > > > What video cards would you recommend? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > If it comes to video acceleration in games under linux then I don't > > > think you have another option besides nvidia, > > > > > > ATi is improving there drivers bit by bit but the drivers are still > > > crap, they work but don't get half the performance you should have. > > > > I think geForce II MX 400 ( or 200 ) 64MB whould be good choice. You can > > buy it for like 20$ (?), it is enough powerfull to run Enemy Territory ( 43 > > fps actually :) ) Quake 2/3 ( 76 fps ) . > > and he will get a fx5200 for 50â which works even with the latest drivers, > while users of elderly cards (everything older than gf4) are out of luck.
Looking at the specs, the fx5200 is AGP8x interface. My motherboard (K7VMM Athlon XP 2400) supports AGP4x 266MHz mode up to 1Gbit/sec bandwidth. Are the AGP8x and AGP4x interfaces downwards compatible? Would the fx5200 work with this interface, and if so, would I get the additional benefit of this card over, for example, a GEForce4 MX440 128MB, with only AGP4x support? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
