[rescue] Video card reco

[Michael Free]

I used to swear by the old Trident chipset cards... it should be fairly easy
to find those in 4 meg PCI variants. Ought to be cheap as heck too, IIRC
they were about $30 *new*.  3D absolutely sucked but 2D was very
respectable, kept my K5-100 PC running games well past it's prime, until the
cheap taiwanese power supply decided to route ~70VAC over the 5V line...

Cirrus Logic made a really good, nicely compatible 2D chipset as well.

Of course, nowadays you can go to Compusa/walmart/etc and pick up a
brand-spanking new I/OMagic somethingorother or even a house brand for less
than $50, and have a warranty and support path too.

Mike Free
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Leblanc" <gleblanc at linuxweasel.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Video card reco


> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:47:16AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo
+1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:53:53AM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
> > > Need a recommendation on a FeeCee video card.  Something fairly cheap,
> > > 1280x1024 true color, PCI slot, decent 2D performance (it's used for
web
> > > browsing).  My dad has one of those Computer Friend P-Pro machines,
and the
> > > card won't do 1280x1024 at a decent color depth on his new LCD
monitor.
> > > Used is ok.
> >
> > Matrox Millenium with 8MB WRAM.  Should be able to get them used for
> > cheap.  Crappy 3D performance but wonderful 2D performance.
>
> Err, Neither the Millenium or the Millenium II had any 3d hardware.
> 2d performance on new cards is no better than these.
>
> There are also some PCI GeForce2 cards, but if you're willing to ebay,
> then the Matrox cards are clearly better.
>    Greg
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