[Lilug] Recommend nvidia card

Will will at psychdesigns.net
Sat Feb 7 13:39:05 PST 2009


I'd recommend any of these...

http://tinyurl.com/btg4db (make sure you choose "lowest priced" from the
drop down box in the upper right corner)

I've had good experiences with EVGA, so I'd recommend them over the rest.

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 14:18:28 -0500, Brett Viren <brett.viren at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
>> i'm looking for the cheapest nvidia card that will be very happy with
> Ubuntu
>> and the fancy desktop nonsense^H^H^H^H^H effects.
> 
> Does anyone continue to use compiz fusion after the initial play time
> is over?  I worked so hard to get that working the first time and
> played with it for about 10 minutes before I just lost the point and
> went back to the beloved sawfish.
> 
>> Any recommendations?
> 
> Intel video card.  Cheaper and don't need proprietary drivers.  My
> laptop has one and the free drivers allow full support for wobbly
> windows and the other funky effects.
> 
> -Brett.
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