LCD / Video Card advice request

[Tim Writer]

"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> writes:

> ATI is still off my buy list.  Great hardware.  Terrible software.  That
> has been ATI for me for the last 12 years.  I see little sign of that
> changing.  I have been buying nVidia hardware for the last 4 years when
> I needed a video card, and I haven't regretted it yet.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen

Don't know if it's the hardware of software but they're off my list too.  I
recently got my hands on a new Radeon VE w/ 64MB (?).  Now I know VE is for
"value edtion" so I shouldn't expect much but I was running an 8 year old PCI
Matrox MGA Millenium w/ 4MB.  To cut a long story short, running glxgears
with the ATI gave me a wopping 200+ frames per second, up from 160+ w/ the
Matrox.  In contrast, my bottom of the line, 1 year old Dell Notebook with
Intel i830 graphics chipset, gets 350+ frames per second.  Approximately, one
month after installation, the Radeon VE failed.  Needless to say, I'm back to
my trusty Matrox.

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