P would look at 9500gt nvidia cards they are in the 60-70 range and
should do well
On 11/8/09, Mike Bushroe <
mbushroe@gmail.com> 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 initially would not run becasue the video drivers were out of date.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
>
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