Re: Shopping for a good cheap video card

[Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jones, John (US) wrote:
> An ATI Radeon 3xxx series card should perform well, and 3xxx cards
> consume less power than the prior generation (2xxx).  While I'm not a
> gamer by any means, the 3870 is pretty nice.
>
> Of late, though, nVidia generally wears the performance crown.  I'm not
> as familiar with their lineup, so I can't make recommendations, but I'd
> say look for 512MB GDDR3 or GDDR4 RAM and plan on spending $100-150.

FWIW, nVidia chipsets also have much better driver support in Linux. 
With some luck this will even out in the near future with ATI promising 
to help the open source developers by providing documentation.