Nvidia are a lot less problematic in my experience. And I honestly think that for your requirements any modern GPU will do. I would look into Nvidia GeForce GT 210/220 (slow/fast) side.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Mark Rogers <m...@quarella.co.uk> wrote: > Apologies to anyone on the ALUG list as I also asked this there. > > I have a PC with on-board ATI HD-6530D. The motherboard is less than a > year old, but apparently this is far too old for AMD/ATI to still > support the chipset so proprietary drivers don't exist for it. I'm > using the FOSS drivers (which would be my preference anyway) but I'm > having issues in X that are causing it to die one way or another every > day or so. The research I've done so far suggests that I have two > options: give up half my life to working out what's going on, or > accept it and move on. > > With the latter option in mind, that means I want to buy a cheap PCI-X > video card, but I'd like to get one that's at least as "good" as the > HD6530D. And for reasons of lack of support I'd like to avoid AMD/ATI. > That pretty much means nVidia (unless someone tells me they're just as > bad?). > > Any recommendations? No gaming, so just responsive desktop graphics, > and reliable under Linux. (I'm on Kubuntu 13.04 (beta) at the moment, > which I upgraded to in part to see if it improved things, which it > didn't.) > > Aside: I did manage to install the ATI drivers and it did seem better, > albeit with an "unsupported hardware" logo permanently on my screen, > which it may be possible to get rid of. But I didn't stick with it > long enough to see if it really made things better. If nVidia/ATI are > as bad as each other then I'd consider either brand's card that's > currently supported if it's cheap enough, especially if it's reliable > under the FOSS drivers. I was sure that AMD made some moves to open > sourcing their drivers, but I must have dreamed it? > -- > > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 > Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > -- Regards, David Aizenberg Peterborough, United Kingdom +44 7831 649 207 www.linkedin.com/in/pixelshuck <http://about.me/PixelShuck>
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