Exactly.  And since he said:

>  "just curious if it is an ok board, or if someone else non gamer like
> myself has used it. Nearly blind.. So action games are a no-no"
>
I was assuming he has no need of those things so why spend the money for a
discrete card (though he already has done so).

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

> the advantages are in the graphics processing. and the fact you can
> start useing the mpeg decoding fucntions a little more. Cuda maybe...
> so it does have a use.. just a more gamer oriented card
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm sure I can find you a pata/ata drive if you can't use the sata drive
> > Matt offered.
> >
> > Try having someone with a Windows machine reformat those bad USB sticks.
> I
> > have recovered several that way.
> >
> > I agree the 9500 card should be fine though I'm not sure what advantage
> it
> > would have for your needs over any on-board video.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> From: eculbert <eculbert@yahoo.com>
> >> > Anyone used [a Galaxy Geforce 9500GT]? Hopefully it works with a
> >> > live cd. Building up a new system w/o onboard video. Going to install
> >> > and try today..just curious if it is an ok board
> >>
> >> The vast majority of nVidia cards will Just Work, in 2D with the "nv"
> >> module,
> >> or 3D with the evil binary-only nvidia module.  Haven't used that model,
> >> but
> >> I've had no problems with any nVidia card since 2000.  The live CD will
> >> probably use "nv", which should be totally fine for the non-3D things
> you
> >> said
> >> you wanted to do.
> >>
> >> > Going to run 'hd-less' till at least 1/8, so live here we go!
> >>
> >> I've got a 250G SATA disk that isn't doing anything at all.  Ran "dd
> >> if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc bs=64k ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=64k"
> 3
> >> times on it, natch.
> >>
> >> --
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