CentOS - Jan 2006 - agp video card direction

greetings

i am thinking of purchasing a 256 meg or larger AGP video card

my current card is a 128 meg nvidia geforce fx 5200 and i have a viewsonic
vp201s lcd monitor

are their larger memory AGP cards worth buying? i have no idea

it will be for serious CentOS and Win XP integration and testing and
eventually production issues...

XP is a necessary support issue in these circumstances

since i am not a gamer (used to duke nukem a long time ago etc) i am mainly
looking for the best stability and quality price performance etc blah

i hope to do anything and everything with this card eventually

im willing to spend an extra few bucks to "do right" in this purchase.

can everyone chime in on nvidia vrs ati and all that please?

thanks in advance!

 - rh

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Robert Hanson - Abba Communications
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Robert Hanson wrote:
> greetings
>
> i am thinking of purchasing a 256 meg or larger AGP video card
>
> my current card is a 128 meg nvidia geforce fx 5200 and i have a viewsonic
> vp201s lcd monitor
>
> are their larger memory AGP cards worth buying? i have no idea
>
> it will be for serious CentOS and Win XP integration and testing and
> eventually production issues...
>
> XP is a necessary support issue in these circumstances
>
> since i am not a gamer (used to duke nukem a long time ago etc) i am mainly
> looking for the best stability and quality price performance etc blah
>   
If you're not playing games and you don't need to drive a giant screen, 
your current card seems like plenty.  That said, if I was going to buy a 
new card and placed some value on bang/buck, I'd probably stick with 
something like the Nvidia 6800GT-based products.  They come in 256mb 
flavors and don't cost an arm and a leg.

Cheers,