Mike, whichever you decide to get, here is a chart that
compares all the Nvidia and ATI cards.
Find a model that you're interested in, and look it up on
the chart, it will show the comparable card in the opposite
column.
It also shows you how many jumps up your new
card would be from the old one.
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run becasue the video drivers were out of date.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