searching for a new graphic card

[Jason Henson]

On 02/22/05 11:05:39, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> 
> > Mike Jakubik wrote:
> >
> > > Why doe sit have to me PCIe? What possible advatange is PCIe  
> going
> to give
> > > you to a 2d card?
> >
> > ok, what else? Since I want to buy a new board, I wanted to swithc
> over
> > to PCIe since it is the "future" and my average system lifetime is  
> 5
> > years. I could buy a normal PCI Card but what do I have the PCIe
> slots
> > then for?
> 
> I think Asus Extreme AX300SE-X/TD is what i'm searching for... and by
> the
> way extremly lowcost. VGA+DVI, passive cooling and PCIe - any
> drawbacks in
> use with FreeBSD/xorg?
>

SE denotes a low performance chip.  If part of the core does not work  
they can turn it off and sell it as a SE.  Besides low performance ATI  
has said in an interview at rage3d.com they will not support FreeBSD,  
just linux.  So you will only get driver support from xorg when they  
get to it.  I think 2d will work no problem?  I know the nvidia cards  
have good support on FreeBSD from nvidia.  So at newegg there is a  
nvidia card for the same price as the same ati chipset you have on the  
asus card.  The lowest priced asus card at new egg was $80, this nvidia  
is $61.  I perfer to shop at newegg for there good customer service and  
the card you picked is not sold there.  Even if you don't go nvidia I  
would still recommend newegg first to anyone.

The card:
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150088