PCI graphics card recommendations sought

From: Aidan Whitehall (aidan_at_noway.thenetprofits.co.uk)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:54:17 +0000 (UTC)

I've got an old AMD K2-500 + 512Mb RAM that is happily dual-booting XP and
Mandrake 10.0 and would really appreciate recommendations for "the best"
PCI graphics card that will work under Linux. The on-board ATI Rage Pro is
tolerable under XP, but sluggish under KDE and Gnome.

As it's an old machine, this is going to be the last graphics card bought
for it, so I'm after recommendations of whatever PCI card will produce
the greatest improvement in graphics performance.

Thanks for any advice!

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