P would look at 9500gt nvidia cards they are in the 60-70 range and should do well On 11/8/09, Mike Bushroe wrote: > My old computer is stating to have trouble running some of the newer > software. In particular, I am getting free training in SolidWorks to use > when Mentoring Highschool teams in First Robotics and also Underwater > Robotics Competition. Unfortunately, SolidWorks only works on Windows, and > my Windoze partition is indeed gettey VERY slow and sleepy. SolidWorks > initially would not run becasue the video drivers were out of date. I have > fixed so that it will run, but is still VERY slow. I already have all RAM > slots full, so I would have to pull and replace, and the best I could do is > double the RAM from 2G to 4G. But a newer video card than my old ATI Radeon > X300 might speed up the graphics intensive CAD program. Can anyone recommend > an inexpesnive (under $100 and preferably in the $40 to $60 range) PCI-E16 > video card that will have both Linux drivers (32bit and 64bit) and also > Windoze XP drivers (32bit and 64bit)? > > I know that ATI has great support for Linux, but most of their cards are > quite expensive. Any specific sugestions? > > Mike > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss