[geeks] Graphics Cards?

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Fri Oct 5 09:33:41 CDT 2012


On 10/05/12 09:55, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm on the hunt for a PCIe graphics card. I'm looking for the best bang for
> buck at the $100-ish price point (I can go higher if someone convinces me it's
> worth it.) The only requirement is that it can only take up one slot, as it's
> going in a 1U server which is being converted to more of a workstation. It
> will be driving a 24" display which is 1920x1200 and can accept displayport,
> DVI or VGA. Ideally the card will provide good performance for XPlane (flight
> sim.) The system is running Windows 7.

The biggest problem these days will be finding a single-width card.  Is
it a PCIe x16 slot?


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