On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:51:20 -0400 Rick Pasotto <r...@niof.net> wrote:
> I need to get an agp video card so take the video load off the regular > bus. Also my new monitor has 1600x900 resolution and the openchrome > driver doesn't recognize that resolution. I don't play games, so it's > mostly for text, web, and an occasional video file. > > What would be the least expensive card for my needs? > Well, if you dont want to play games, your choices are, ATI OSS drivers, nVidia OSS drivers, nVidia binary blob driver. You can get pretty much any ATI gpu and get everything bar 3D from the OSS driver, see here [1], here are a few cards that would be fine [2]-[5] If you want video decoding in the GPU, you only real option is a nVidia card with the binary blob (Its iffy on the ATI binary and the OSS drivers have no support or its iffy) though the only AGP nVidia card i could find new is this [6] and it will have limited hardware decoding support due to its older nature. The number of AGP cards is quite limited, but the HD3xxx or HD4xxx or a nVidia 6200 should all do the job, do note that hardware accelerated video only works on the binary drivers at the moment, and the ATI binary driver can be very buggy at times. But if you can live without video acceleration, one of the ATI grathics cards with the OSS Radeon driver will give you a very nice 2D experiance with KMS etc! Sorry for the long post! [1]http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature [2]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102862 [3]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102814 [4]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-183-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842 [5]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161318 [6]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125249 ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
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