Aleksandar Milivojevic alex@milivojevic.org wrote:
Thanks for the answers. I think I'll go with either cheap X300 or 6200 cards, forget about 3D, and save myself couple of $ ;-)
If you're not interested in 3D, another option that should be compatible with ALL CentOS releases (3 and 4) using the MIT 2D drivers is the GeForce PCX 5300. It's essentially a GeForce FX 5200 (NV34) -- which was supported in the very first Xorg release, as well as the last XFree86 release before it's adoption by Red Hat.
Most of the affordable GeForce FX (NV3x) solutions are absolutely attrocious at 3D compared to even the older GeForce4 Ti (NV25/28) series. Even though it's an earlier generation with less feature support, the NV25/28 is often able to best NV31/34 with newer features turned on. Probably the biggest bastard is the GeForce FX 5700"LE" which has its clock cut by 45% over the "full" 5700 and it shows, losing to the "old" GeForce4 Ti4200/4800 in many benchmarks.
But for 2D, the GeForce PCX 5300 (PCIe) / FX 5200 (AGP) are widely supported.