Nvidia has the best proprietary driver. Ati's proprietary driver can be good sometimes just need to take a minute and research what you're buying. It would be nice to know more about what cards you have tried. At any rate the problem you're going to run into though is that your computer's motherboard has an AGP slot (assuming you haven't replaced the motherboard). This is going to limit your choices down to cards that are either A: old legacy chipsets that require legacy versions of the drivers B: newer standard PCI slot cards that cost more simply because they use the old PCI slot instead of the newer PCI Express.
If your heart is set on buying a new graphics card with decent horsepower you might try http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125281 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143069 On the same website they have old geforce 6200 cards for a cheap price new that will work good enough on your computer assuming you're not looking at doing hd video or 3d games. I'd also recommend that you research on what kind of power supply wattage any cards you intend to buy require before you buy anything. For example the power supply might not be putting out enough power to run the card you want in it and you'll need a new power supply that can handle the power demand. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Christopher Miller < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:48 PM, jbander wrote: > > > Thats pretty much it, I would like to know were a good place to go to > > find a used video card that with work with multiple linux programs ,I > > would like it plug and play. Tight budget. I have a old emachine > > t3104. I've tried three so fare with little success, still freezes. I > > run Ubuntu 11.04 > > Used: try ebay. > > You can still get a decent new video card from somewhere like newegg.comfor a > decent price. > > If the machine is freezing after three video cards, then it's probably > something unrelated to the video card. > > Also, Linux video card drivers tend to suck badly. Trying every card in > existance might not be as effective as simply obtaining a new machine with > some kind of Intel Integrated graphics. The Intel graphics suck (read: are > über slow), but the drivers themselves rock and rarely crash on me. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
