[Cialug] Video Card

[David Champion]

If you can swing it, I would spend a little more for the 9800 GT, a very 
quick search shows they start about $95. It's fast enough to handle just 
about any of the current generation of games. When Id's new game, Rage, 
comes out (someday), it may not be quite enough.

The 9500 GT is quite a bit slower than the 9800 GT... depending on what 
games you want to play it may not be enough for you. If you just want to 
play Quake 3 generation games, you'd be OK with the 9500.

It should work fine in Linux (with the proprietary driver) and Windows.

One of the VM people can tell you more on this, but I don't think that 
graphics hardware acceleration is fully "there" yet for VM's, but it is 
allegedly coming.

For now, you should probably plan on doing your gaming / 3D stuff on 
your host / native OS, or look into good old dual booting instead.

If you have a choice in brands, I'd go with XFX. Good quality stuff, and 
I've had a few of their cards, they have a very nice replacement policy 
if your card goes bad. EVGA is kind of the "reference card" 
manufacturer, they don't do much beyond what nVidia specs, where 
companies like XFX will tweak things to run better, faster, cooler, etc.

-dc

Dan Schlichting wrote:
> I am looking at getting my first pci Express card.
>
> The model is ge force 9500 gt 1 gig of ram for $64.
>
> Any pro's, con's I want to use it with mythtv and playing games either
> with vm or windows.
>
> Dan
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