[ILUG] Graphics card recommendation?

[Philip Creevy]

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 17:18 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.
> 

PCI and PCI-E are not physically compatible and ATI seems to be
the only one still doing PCI cards.
Philip