best video card for bsds

Eric Hodel drbrain at segment7.net
Tue May 18 17:44:36 PDT 2004


Jon Noack (noackjr at alumni.rice.edu) wrote:

> When I say 'accelerated' I mostly mean 3D.  Accelerated drivers often 
> improve 2D performance as well, but for the vast majority of cases the 
> 2D speed of the unaccelerated drivers is sufficient.
> 
> Note that I am only considering ATI and nVidia cards as they are by far 
> the most popular.  Others (like Matrox) also offer excellent X support 
> but are more niche products.

I'm quite pleased with my Matrox G550, the only "problem" I have with it
is that after starting X, returning to the text console leaves the
second monitor on, requiring me to turn it off with the power switch,
but that's not too far of a reach.

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