Preferred video card

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net>:

> I have gotten my new 2.4 GHz Athlon system running RedHat, and even 
> gotten the new NVidia graphics card (Asus V9280S Ti4200 based) working 
> with the NVidia drivers.  

> By "slow", I mean slower than a Win2K Athlon system (1.2 GHz) with an 
> NVidia GX2 based VGA card for the same operation (dragging a window, 
> with the window contents moving too, not just the window frame) in the 
> same operating mode (1280 x 1024 x 24bit).

You didn't say how much RAM you had - remember that XWindows generally wants at 
leat 4X what MS does.  

Also, remember that if you've installed generic RedHat, you have a lot of 
debugging code and generic one-compile-runs-all stuff in X.  We have good 
reports on the effectiveness of compiling X and the kernel to get really nice 
improvements in efficiency.

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