[linux-audio-user] Best possible PCI-Express video card for DAW

Stephen Hassard steve at hassard.net
Mon Jan 15 15:59:01 EST 2007


I've had a lot of good luck with an ATI X800 XL that's now fairly well
supported with GPL'd OpenGL drivers in Xorg. I've seen these boards
available via ATI's website refurbished for less than $100 bucks.

On 1/15/07, mark at ehle.homelinux.org <mark at ehle.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> Hello again, folks -
>
> A while back I emailed you for advice on the best motherboard that I
> could get for a rock-solid digital audio workstation. I appreciate all
> the recommendations, and wound up buying an Intel D925XECV2 with a
> Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz processor. I have 2 Kingston 512MB RAM sticks
> coming as well. I've also got a Seagate 250Mb SATA Barracuda on the
> way, too. I will use this for the system software and get a couple of
> bigger drives for data later.
>
> The D925XECV2 is a nice board near as I can tell (I haven't fired it
> up yet) but it does not come with on-board video. It does come with a
> PCI-Express slot, so my next question is what is the best video board
> to get for this setup?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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