Cheap Linux compatible video cards

[Nathan England]

On Sunday 08 November 2009 15:42:39 Bob Elzer wrote:
> I know four people who have had top of the line Nvidia cards and all have
> been having trouble with them, mostly overheating.
> 
> Three of them have already given up and switched to ATI, one of them
> yesterday. he had a 260 and exchanged it for a 4870.
> 
> The cards were mainly for gaming on windows but it was always heat issues.
> 
> I recommend going with ATI.


You said the cards were mostly used for GAMING and on WINDOWS.

So how would those cards work on a LINUX system that is not GAMING? 
Seriously, you recommend a card to a LINUX user because it works better for WINDOWS 
GAMING?

I thought this was a linux list  !?! Didn't the original question ask about linux support?
Nvidia has a binary blob but it works MUCH better than ATI's drivers do. Atleast in my 
latest test of the cards and drivers. Anything nvidia works better than anything ati. 
Unless you use the open source X.org drivers for either card, both work well.