[nzlug] Video card site?

[Toby Collett]

Just a note, watch out for any cards which have DVI-D if you are looking to
use an adapter to get to VGA, these are only supported on DVI-I (which are
seemingly provided on every video card except the cheap nVidia based one I
got for the purpose). Seller (NFC) were happy to exchange it though...

I also found that for some reason the nVidia based providers don't introduce
dual DVI until a much higher price point than ATI, Which is fairly
unfortunate since I was after pretty much the same sort of video card, ended
up spending about twice your video card budget, but did get a fanless card
which is nice.

Toby

2008/5/19 simon <simonbridge at ihug.co.nz>:

> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:25 +1200, Simon Lyall wrote:
> > I'm in process of specing out a new desktop machine. I'm planning to
> spend
> > under $100 each on Case/Power, Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Disk and Video for
> a
> > total spend of around $500-$600.
> >
> Hmmm.... if you are buying a new card - go nVidia - otherwise, use an
> ATI card with radeon driver support (man radeon). You will have less
> trouble, long run, with free drivers.
>
> In general - the driver man page lists the supported hardware.
>
> If all new HW - the usual thing is to discover what is available in your
> price rance, make notes, and google the rest of the way home.
>
>
>
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