On 24 March 2013 09:19, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
What mainboard is it ? I assume you mean PCI-e as a year old PC with only PCI-X slots would be weird and you'd be extremely limited in choices of GFX card you could plug in ;)
Yes, PCI-e, brain not in gear....
Myself if I have wanted 3D and accelerated video etc to just work I have used nvidia and their binary blob, if I just want a reliable desktop machine with enough oomph to maybe handle a composting window manager then I try and find something with a compatible intel gfx core but you can't get those on a GFX card.
Indeed, I often go with an onboard Intel for this reason but it's a bit late to pick a different motherboard!
I've generally used nVidia in the past so based on comments here and elsewhere I've bought a cheap G210 - we'll see how I get on. I made just find out my problem wasn't graphics related after all....