> Alas, just a few weeks ago I purchased a new MSI K8T motherboard with a
> 939 socket and an AMD_64 bit Athlon 3500 + with a gig of ram and an AGP
> slot. I am extremely happy though because it works great. Extremely
> fast. Didn't know about the upcoming PCI Express. I reused my old
> Voodoo 3 videocard.( PCI ) My children would like to purchase a new
> videocard for me for Christmas in the not so expensive range. I am not
> a serious gamer although I like to play games from time to time.
>
> Sooooo, can you boil it down for me a little ???
I recommend an nvidia card, maybe an fx5700 or thereabouts. ("not so
expensive range" is always subjective...)
Three reasons:
1) Right now for good, high-end, accelerated opengl support on linux,
you have basically two choices: ATI and NVidia
2) ATI has a very shaky history with linux support, and currently
provides NO 64bit drivers
3) NVidia provides both 32bit and 64bit drivers for linux, and their
drivers also work well for running 32bit apps(say, a commercial game
like Neverwinter Nights or Doom3) in a 64bit environment(say,
debian-pure64 ;)
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