Forum: Blender


Subject: Ahhhh... new Video card for my desktop..

Reddog9 opened this issue on Jul 23, 2007 · 4 posts


Reddog9 posted Mon, 23 July 2007 at 9:12 PM

Since my monitor went up in smoke a few months ago and took my motherboard with it,  I made an upgrade and replaced it with one that had an AGP slot.  

I got an ATI card several years ago, which lacks to say the least.  

Today, I got some pay back from someone who owed me some money, so I headed out to look for a card to fill that AGP slot.  I was determined to go with an Nvidia card this time and I found one that fit the bill.  

PNY - Nvidia GeForce FX5200
256mb , AGP 
$90 at Best Buy.  

Works fantastic.  Blender works great with it too.  

I've been using my laptop since my desktop went down.  It has an onboard integrated Intel Extreme Graphics II (I believe that's correct).  Blender works great on that too, but the Nvidia has it beat now.  

Just curious what everyone else is using?  

Wish the Blender Site had some kind of user-generated list going with what works and what doesn't.  

Scott

Reddog9
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