Re: New video card

Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 :) wrote:
houghi wrote:
With all this talk about new hardware, one of my screens decided to kill
itself. My choice is between buying a new 20" 1600x1200 or right away go
for 2 x 24". The first is obvious cheaper. The second is twice the
price. (Yeah, 24" is the price of a 20")

However I would then also need to buy a new video card and obviously I
would like to be able to use it with openSUSE.

Now I run all in 2-d and am happy. However if I would decide to buy a
new card, I would want it to be able to run 3D as well. It also needs to
have the ability to steer two 1920x1200 screens.

In another group somebody sugested a GigaByte GeForce 7600GS¹ or a MSI
GeForce 7600 GT.

So any sugestions (or any other to be able to run it with what openSUSE
has to offer? The choice is so big, I would have no idea where to start.
Oh yeah, it has to be AGP (isn't that what was the latest for video
cards a few years ago?)

Are there brands I shouls NOT buy, because they give me trouble?

¹http://tinyurl.com/23gouc
²http://tinyurl.com/ywbwdu
Do not worry about the store. This is mere to see what is available.

houghi


I just bought an MSI Retail Box MSI nVidia Geforce 8400 GS 256MB DDR PCI Express x16. It works quite well with OpenSuse and new Nvidia setup on the home page. Does 3D and everything and it's not in the OpenSuse list nor in my PCChips motherboard listing.
It was just $43.99. It's also a DirectX 10.0 Vista capable. Add it to the list if you like.


Here is more specs on that card:
Manufacturer: Msi
Part Number: NX8400GS-TD256EH
Condition: New
Packaging: Retail
3B Tech Warranty: DOA 7 days
Manufacturer Warranty: 1 year

NVIDIA CineFX 5.0 Shading Architecture
? Microsoft Vista Features
? Vertex shaders
- Support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Vertex Shader 4.0
- Encompass' Transform and Lighting
- Displacement mapping
- Geometry instancing
? Pixel shades
- Support for DirectX 10.0 Pixel Shader 4.0
- Support for full pixel branching
- Support for Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)
- Infinite-length pixel programs
? Next-generation texture engine
? Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline,with native hardware support for 32 bpp,64 bpp,and 128 bpp rendering modes.

64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending
? Full floating point is supported throughout entire pipeline
? Floating point filtering improves the quality of images in motion
? Floating point texturing drivers new levels of clarity and image detail
? Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and explosions

NVIDIA Intellisample 4.0 Technology
? Advanced 16X anisotropic filtering (up to 128 taps)
? Rotated-grid antialiasing for removing jagged edges for incredible edge quality
? Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture,and z-data at higher resolutions and frame retes
? Fast z-clear
? Support for normal map compression
? New transparent supersampling and transparent multisampling antialiasing modes.

NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
? Patented hardware and software technology allows two GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance
? Three dedicated video engines
? MPEG-2 HD and WMV HD video playback up to 1920 X1080p resolution
? H 264 hardware decode acceleration
? Decryption supported for all standard HD Video formats-AES-128 CTR mode,AES-128 CBC mode,and AES-128 ECB mode.
? Industry's most advanced video algorithms
? Overlay color temperature correction
? Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support for multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window
? Integrated HDTV output.



VCN-MSI-8400GS-256Epad$43.99pad

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