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Bob - BLU wrote: > I have a Linux server that needs a graphics adapter. It will spend > most of it's time displaying an X login window, and the rest of the > time displaying an X session while maintenance occurs. No games > here. But I expect to be running a few virtual machines under > VirtualBox or VMWare. So I'm looking for a graphics adapter than can > handle that (most any), and not chew up much power as it spends its > life displaying the login window. > > The motherboard has a PCI 2.0 x16 slot for an adapter. I was > thinking an NVidia based card as they seem to have the best drivers > (proprietary is acceptable here). > > Any recommendations for a 'green' card? I just bought a nice, cheap, low-end pcie2.0 graphics card for a box I built a couple of months ago: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102724 It's pretty green, since it doesn't have a fan (cools by heatsink only) and thus uses less power. 2 caveats though: 1) it might be hard to find (Newegg no longer sells it), and 2) not sure how the Linux support is for this; I used it for our Windows desktop HTH, DR
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