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Video cardsVideo cardsPosted Dec 3, 2007 16:50 UTC (Mon) by DG (subscriber, #16978)In reply to: Video cards by rfunk Parent article: The first ATI r5xx/6xx X11 driver release
I'll second the G550 - they're quite cheap on ebay, and seem very reliable. Unfortunately they have no 3D capability, and are probably 5+ years old - hence I /think/ I'm missing out on 'new' stuff. I've also not found a distro that will magically generate the appropriate xorg.conf file for it, and have to revert to using my own each and every time. David.
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Video cards Posted Dec 4, 2007 10:19 UTC (Tue) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] Sorry, that is simply not true. G550 has 3D capability, I'm using it to play Quake 3 Arena.
Careful of the G550 and DVI Posted Dec 5, 2007 8:48 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] G550 is a solid piece of kit, and a modern version has a nice small IC, and is very power efficient. However, it cannot reliably drive 1600x1200 over DVI. If your monitor has this resolution, or larger, and is a digital device like an LCD, then yuou should look elsewhere if you care about image quality.
Careful of the G550 and DVI Posted Dec 5, 2007 8:49 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] That is.. if you have this resolution or larger you'll be using VGA, and decoding in your monitor back to pixels, resulting in a slightly offset (and degraded) image, most of the time.
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