[ILUG] Graphics card recommendation?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Monday 01 June 2009 15:39:48 Owen Brady wrote:
> > I'm looking for a graphics card satisfying the following criteria:
> >
> > 1. Cheap
> > 2. T&L capability
> > 3. Works under Fedora-10, if possible as is.
> >
> > [This is for a desktop with Asus K8V-MX motherboard.
> > I need the T&L feature for my grand-daughter to play Sims-2
> > under Windows XP.]

> Transform and Lighting(T & L) has been handled onboard by pretty much all
> graphics cards
> made in the last 13 years, but since your daughter needs to play the Sims
> 2, pretty much any
> card by Nvidia made in the last 3 or 4 years should do the job perfectly.

Thanks for your very useful reply.

Actually, this desktop is not that old - I think about 4 or 5 years.
The video card in it is VIA S3 UniChrome Pro (K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A)
which apparently does not support T&L.

I'm just wondering if there could be any problem with the PCI slot?
Are PCI and PCI-E cards incompatible?
As far as I can see, the current card is PCI,
while the nVidia cards you mentioned seem to be PCI-E.




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