I'm running a radeon HD 5770 These can be picked up relatively cheap off eBay. Game wise it handles anything I have thrown at it Skyrim on highest detail, Battlefield 3, Farcry 3 both on highest detail. But this is of course through Windows 7 I don't use Linux for gaming.
Might be worth researching into what the Linux support is like. But from a Windows point of view for the money the card kicks ass. I don't tend to bother with Compiz or any of that fancy GUI animation stuff, I usually run Centos or Debian headless. So wouldn't know if the card is capable of doing all that fancy graphical GUI wizardry. Infact it has been a few years since I have seen Compiz and such effects last experience was with a older Ubuntu release before they implemented Unity. I remember It used to be a right pain in the ass to configure.
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On 9 Feb 2013, at 10:36, mark@??? wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've just upgraded by desktop to Ubuntu to 12.10 and come across the wonderful fact that AMD/ATI now consider my Radeon HD 3000 series graphics card "legacy" and dont provide drivers for the Xorg version that 12.10 uses. As such, I'm now running an odd setup with a downgraded Xorg and patched driver, which is far from ideal going forward. Time for a new graphics card.
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> I don't buy stuff like this very often, so I'm hoping someone who has done so recently can point me in the right direction. I do a fair bit of gaming, but I'm not die hard. Skyrim is the most recent game I have, and I'm happy with the performance I get on that out my current card. Something mid-range would suit me, around the £50 mark.
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> I also have no particular loyalty to AMD or NVidia. The reason I ended up with an AMD card is that when I built the PC, Nvidia cards had problems with KWin's compisting (I've since switched to Unity, so this is no longer a consideration). Are there any pitfalls regarding common issues with a manufacturer's drivers that I should be aware of?
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> My current investigations have led me to consider the NVidia Geforce 630[1]. If anyone has good or bad experience with this in particular, or would recommend a different card with a similar spec, I'd be very grateful.
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> Cheers
> Mark
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> [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-GeForce-Graphics-Express-Dust-Proof/dp/B0084LE1XY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360404970&sr=8-1
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