I need the best bang for the buck basic Nvidia Linux supported card

[The Linuxator]

OK so I am selling my ATI power color X800XL which I absolutely love it never faced a problem with any game at max Settings and AA/AF was awesome, but now I got sick of gaming and spending big bucks on gfx and system is getting out of hand, therefore since I am not gaming anymore I have no use for Win XP to be on my system, and therefore the X800XL is worthless in a Linux system (Driver support for Linux is SH!T) so you got the picture I am looking for the best deal Nvidia PCI-e card that will be able to handle the basic needs, I might still play some silly games here and there, and might be doing some simple 3D Draw apps on Linux. I am considering something like this
how is Linux support for this card I am running Fedora Core 4 32-bit.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

6200 would be my choice too, not a bad little card. got a decent amount of power but id buy a non turbo cache version just to keep my system ram all to my self

 

[The Linuxator]

Now what's the difference bewtween the 6200TC and the 6200 ?

 

[SNM]

Turbo cache cards make use of system RAM rather like integrated graphics systems do; non-TC cards use onboard RAM.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Now what's the difference bewtween the 6200TC and the 6200 ?

the TC version works like on board graphics.

you have the same GPU, but instead of giving it say 128mb of main memory for it to use, they give it just 32mb, and on a slower 64bit bus. now for 2d apps this is probably fine since it wont fill 32mb, but when you need more the TC version will use your MAIN system memory (like on board graphics would) and it'll do this through the PCI-E bus.

now for games thats obviously going to be rubbish and slow. but i guess if your not doing any heavy 3d work/ mainly 2d work then you probably wont notice

id buy the non turbo cache version out of sheer preference whether i needed it or not lol thats jus the way i am

 

[The Linuxator]

Oh so TC stands for Turbo Cache I should of figured that out already, but is it a dynamic memory sharing ?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Oh so TC stands for Turbo Cache I should of figured that out already, but is it a dynamic memory sharing ?

i believe so....i dont think it portions off a set amount of memory from your main RAM like intel on board graphics does.

if you need more than what the card supplys then it'll begin to use the system memory

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Oh so TC stands for Turbo Cache I should of figured that out already, but is it a dynamic memory sharing ?

i believe so....i dont think it portions off a set amount of memory from your main RAM like intel on board graphics does.

if you need more than what the card supplys then it'll begin to use the system memory

Just to add to your info, the intel integrated gfx on my IBM R50e Thinkpad dynamically sets the amount of shared memory, like right now it's at 8MB if I run some game I can see it go up.
I think what I will get is a 6 series with a 128MB onboard that will be suffecient and if the need arisies for more it's welcome to use system memory, but I doubt that need will ever arise.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: The Linuxator

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Oh so TC stands for Turbo Cache I should of figured that out already, but is it a dynamic memory sharing ?

i believe so....i dont think it portions off a set amount of memory from your main RAM like intel on board graphics does.

if you need more than what the card supplys then it'll begin to use the system memory

Just to add to your info, the intel integrated gfx on my IBM R50e Thinkpad dynamically sets the amount of shared memory, like right now it's at 8MB if I run some game I can see it go up.
I think what I will get is a 6 series with a 128MB onboard that will be suffecient and if the need arisies for more it's welcome to use system memory, but I doubt that need will ever arise.

im not sure u can get a 128mb TC card....i thought the range stopped at 64mb. but either way TC or not a 128mb would be more than fine even in alot of current games so

oh and cheers for the heads up on the intel thing, i dont have a laptop or anything that uses intel graphics, but im sure my dads sony laptop only uses whats been set in the bios. not sure though

 

[The Linuxator]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: The Linuxator

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Oh so TC stands for Turbo Cache I should of figured that out already, but is it a dynamic memory sharing ?

i believe so....i dont think it portions off a set amount of memory from your main RAM like intel on board graphics does.

if you need more than what the card supplys then it'll begin to use the system memory

Just to add to your info, the intel integrated gfx on my IBM R50e Thinkpad dynamically sets the amount of shared memory, like right now it's at 8MB if I run some game I can see it go up.
I think what I will get is a 6 series with a 128MB onboard that will be suffecient and if the need arisies for more it's welcome to use system memory, but I doubt that need will ever arise.

im not sure u can get a 128mb TC card....i thought the range stopped at 64mb. but either way TC or not a 128mb would be more than fine even in alot of current games so

oh and cheers for the heads up on the intel thing, i dont have a laptop or anything that uses intel graphics, but im sure my dads sony laptop only uses whats been set in the bios. not sure though

Ya like my laptop doesn't have any options for setting the amount of shared memoty, that's one of the indicators of Dynamic Memory Sharing.
And concerning the 128MB 6200TC, Evga offers one on newegg, but I will not buy it because it's a tad more expensive and the memory it uses runs at 400MHZ instead of the 550 MHZ the rest of the cards use. So I'll go with maybe an ASUS or and MSI with support to up to 256MB and a DVI, VGA & Video out port that should be more than enough for me.