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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 09 2001 - 16:46:34 CDT

Dear Dominik,
  At the present time I'd recommend the NVidia GeForce family of
products as a low-cost option for Linux. You can pick up several
of the GeForce models for between $100 and $150, and they all work
pretty well on Linux, using the XFree86 4.x server that comes with most
of the current Linux distributions. The drivers are pretty easy to
install, and cards perform very well given what they cost. There are
higher-end "professional" OpenGL accelerators for Linux, as well as
commercial X servers. In our lab, we're using a large number of the
"GeForce 2 GTS" model cards, ours are sold by "WinFast", but they are
almost the same as the NVidia reference boards.

Let us know if you have more questions about this.

Thanks for using VMD!
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

Let me know if you have more questions about this.

  

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:38:40PM -0600, Dominik Horinek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to have recommendations for a 3d graphic card. VMD/ Linux should
> support it using OpenGL 3d acceleration. What prices do I have to expect
> for such cards.
>
> Thanks for any recommendations,
>
> Dominik
>
> --
> Dominik Horinek
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> reply to: horinek_at_eefus.colorado.edu 

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