Which of these video cards should I get? I'm trying to decide best value for the dollar. And yes, it must be PCI. It's for a laptop docking station that has 2 pci slots available.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...nd&order=price

Right now my top pick is this one:

http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/...82E16814103167

 

the ati card you have there

 

yea, that 9250 looks like the best value.

 

Three is a charm ... ATI 9250 with 256 meg would be my choice with windows *not linux.

 

I dual boot linux on this machine. Why not ATI with linux?

 

i dunno ati has drivers for it but maybe they arent the best

 

ATI offers linux drivers but, they are limited in scope and have issues. Issues are beyond the scope of this thread. In short, ATI embrace proprietary drivers while Nvidia uses open standards.

If you have Linux go with Nvidia.
If you have Windows then your options should include ATI (my opinion).

Good luck!

 

Ive have had my ATI X800 XT PE for about 8 months now and am VERY happy with it.

 

thats the same card i have and its a high end gaming card he needs sounds like he just need something to run windows and linux

 

Perfect solution to the problem... The laptop has onboard NVidia graphix. When I use it undocked, I like to use Linux, as docking it creates issues. So when docked, I use Windows... at least until I solve the issues with Linux. So, docked, I'll use the ATI card and undocked I'll use the NVidia card.