Can anyone help me pick out a budget friendly (sub $200) graphics card?

  • Doesn’t have to be current generation

  • I won’t be gaming at all on the PC

  • Needs to run well on Linux

  • Must run 3 monitors

  • Biggest workout it will get is streaming security cams on one screen, full screen video on another.

  • Power supply is only 295W and I’d rather not upgrade it.

Any help is much appreciated!

  • bankimu@lemm.ee
    13·
    1 year ago

    I’d buy a pre owned card from eBay.

    Go with RTX 2070 Super which should be around your price point. If not, then RTX 2070 (not super).

    Make sure returns are accepted, and seller has high rating (99%).

    • notasandwich1948
      121·
      1 year ago

      are you sure you want to go with an Nvidia card, I’ve had plenty of problems with Nvidia drivers before

      • CeeBee@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        Nvidia drivers are fine on Linux. There may be contention with how the are distributed (closed source) but as far as installing them and using them, it’s trivial at the point.

        • notasandwich1948
          2·
          1 year ago

          it’s not that they are hard to install, just that they are worse than AMD ones

        • SinJab0n@mujico.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not necessarily, I installed them in debian 11 wich still used an old version of xorg, system went to hell and never came back, that was the last time I used nvidia for linux.

          Why do I need to struggle? there’s already another option wich cost less money and doesn’t demand my weekend just to make it “work”

          • CeeBee@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever tried to install the Nvidia drivers on Debian before. Certainly not within the last 5 years.

            But my point still stands. In just about all the major desktop distros it’s trivial. In fact, many of the popular distros will install the Nvidia drivers during the OS installation itself. You don’t even need to do anything post-install. And other distros, like Ubuntu, it’s a single click in a settings window.

      • bankimu@lemm.ee
        11·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, you’re right. Might as well go with AMD. NVidia works but isn’t needed. I think NVidia generally has low power draw though, so just check to make sure.