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Hello,

> I was pretty ticked when I found I couldn't even *buy* a cheap PCI-E
> radeon board.  These days, even the "low end" radeon cards (e.g.
> Radeon 7000) are pretty damn good, unless you want to do some serious
> 3D rendering.

Yeah, they're made for games and little else. And yes, there's
definitely a lack of high quality, just-for-2d PCI-E cards.

> I'm using Radeon 7000 (PCI!) in some other stuff I'm doing, and I'm
> pretty impressed with their feature set.  (Only one complaint -- they
> have only a single overlay generator, so you can't use separate
> overlays on separate displays.)

For serious work there's always Matrox :p
( not sure if they can do multiple overlays though )

have fun
Michael

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