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From: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
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Subject: RE: Video card to recommend
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Maybe Matrox videocards are halfway affordable in yankeeland / europe /
etc but they certainly aren't in OZ. Last time I priced one they wanted
something totally stupid like $400, whereas comparable ATI ones are around
$70.

I've only ever used ATI cards with every O/S and never once had a
problem with them .... the one & only Matrox I've encountered (Win98
system) gave nothing but trouble with weird driver related conflicts ....
not good enough for things with extortionate price !!!!!!


On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jukka Simil=E4 wrote:

>
> >
> > > I've been into a lot of trouble when configuring X for my
> > hardware. Any good
> > > and trouble-free video cards that you all can recommend ?
> >
> > I've always had good luck with ATI cards. :) Also, you may
> > want to ask on
> > -questions... it's for the more technical questions you may have.
> >
> >
> > Rick
> Well if you use ATI you'll certainly need luck.. :)
>
> I'd say Matrox is the way to go.
>
> // alias "Millennium I rocks"
>
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