On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 21:18, Patrick wrote:
to replace my video card with something more current. I am looking at three AGP cards:
ATI Radeon 7200 Matrox G450 VisionTek GeForce2-MX400
Any comments pro or con on any of these cards, or graphics card choices with 7.3 in general, will be greatly appreciated.
Malcolm, My vote is for the ATI Radeon 7200 card. I went thru the Nvidia challenge and didn't have much luck. Too many quirks to suit my tastes, although there are some here that have had very good setups with them, I am not one of those as many others that lurk here. The ATI is better supported thru open source and my new Radeon 7200 gives me very good performance in every aspect. I had the ATI Xpert Pro 2000 with the Rage 128 chipset before and the Radeon performance has more than doubled from that card. I had a TNT2 Vanta Nvidia as my first card and the performance was very good, as long as the Nvidia supplied drivers worked and at one point they just quit working. Still don't know why that happened, just give up and got the ATI and have been happy since. Your mileage may vary. :-)
Dang. Wish I had known this before purchasing a GForce 2 MX400 (NVidia). Still haven't gotten it to work with open GL and the performance isn't any better than the Matrox G450 I replaced. The FAQ keeps telling me something about reworking the kernal...which I haven't time for...