Low-end PCI-E DVI for Linux (xfree86 4.3) - suggestions?

Bat · Post by **Bat** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:37 pm

Building a new Linux box, I feel it makes sense to go for a PCI-E motherboard rather than AGP.

The graphics card needs good resolution (1600x1200 or better) but 3D performance needn't be anything special. (DVI isn't an immediate requirement but would be nice: I'm keeping an eye on the price and quality of 1600x1200 and 1920x1200 LCD monitors.)

If it were AGP then I would probably buy something like a Sapphire radeon 7000 card: cheap (£15 to £20), fanless, 1600x1200 through VGA and DVI outputs, and reported to work well under xfree86.

Old cards like that don't seem to be around for pci express though.

Any suggestions?

teknerd · Post by **teknerd** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:07 pm

ATI Radeon x300SE, about 70 bucks give or take.
Fanless, DVI, VGA, S-Video, cheap (or at least as cheap as you can get with a PCI-E interface)
newegg, monarch, zzf, all the major places seel them.

Bat · Post by **Bat** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:28 pm

Thank you!

I had seen it was the cheapest PCI-E card that dabs.co.uk sell (£32 own-brand or £35 Sapphire) but X300SE isn't mentioned on http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html
and on searching for a little while I didn't find anything telling me it would work.

Do you happen to know it does?