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On 31/05/15 00:29, Adrian Midgley wrote: > Thanks. Not DICOM. > I'd been looking at a ONY Quadro NVS 510. > > (THE 270S are PNY Quadro whatever that means. ) > > So the Geforce is nicely cheaper. > > The Matrox card was lovely, until Wheezy became obsolete. I've > considered reinstalling Wheezy, and running Jessie in a virtual machine > on it, but that seems stupidly complex and I don't know if it would even > work with the card. Let me break it down for you (that sounds like the intro to a rap track but whatever): "PNY" are an OEM like Asus or MSI: https://www.pny.com/ "Quadro" is the workstation class of super high-quality but expensive graphics cards. They're basically top-binned die casts of the regular silicon with tweaked drivers. It's often possible to reflash SOHO level cards with Quadro drivers instead as the underlying hardware is essentially identical. This is as opposed to the non-Quadro range of consumer graphics cards, nominated usually as GTX $value. A GTX will normally do 99% of whatever you want at 10% the cost, unless you happen to be a GPGPU aficionado or a professional graphics/meteorology person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Quadro "270s" has temporarily stumped me. Are you sure that's not just your driver version or something? Because it's not an official Nvidia hardware designation. What does "lspci -vvv | grep -i nvidia" give you? Lastly, it sounds like you may be seriously overspeccing here: list your requirements and I (or anyone else obviously) can make an informed suggestion. If you don't have specific 10/12bit/4k/>60Hz requirements - which is what I normally check for medical scenarios - you could probably get away with spending £30 on a low end Nvidia card or two. Running 2+ monitors at high quality on a linux system is hardly rocket science these days. If that is your only requirement you are seriously overthinking things. Pretty much *anything* would work - just buy it and plug it in. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq