Re: Video Card

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:20:16PM -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> I'm looking for a fairly cheap (under $100 or so), but nice video card
> to run on my Linux/Windows box.  I'm looking at playing games on both. 
> But, there's a catch.  I tried nVidia,

Ick.  Repeat after me...  nVidia is evil.  nVidia is evil.

> but it won't work because I'm not running on a high enough power
> supply - I've got a 200watt supply. nVidia wants at least 250-300. So,
> no good there. Anyone else no of any good cards under Linux that will
> fit my bracket?

Forget it.  No modern (in other words, reasonably fast) card is going
to work on a machine with such a small power supply.  Your best bet is
to buy a better power supply first.  Otherwise, you are taking a
serious gamble with your hardware.  (Those little power supplies tend
to die, often taking large parts of the system with them.)

If you want some help finding a power supply, feel free to let me
know.  (I sell hardware.  Replacement power supplies start around $25
for 250W and go up from there.)

Oh, and to answer your original question...  Once you have a power
supply that can handle it, I would suggest getting an ATI Radeon
8500LE-based card.  I can sell the OEM cards for around $80, maybe a
little less.  I've seen them for as little as $65 from random vendors
on pricewatch.com.

The 8500LE is going to run circles around anything nVidia sells in
that price range.

Steve
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