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I've moved this post to it's own thread; I'm not sure it makes sense where it was; which was a thread about a monitor issue which eventually was thought of as a non-issue.
If you're writing about your servers, considering that generally they'll be in a datacenter, and almost always they'll never had xWindows installed, especially not displaying to a local monitor, you really don't care what kind of video it runs. Generally you'll want to run onboard video, unless the onboard video uses a lot of memory and you can turn it off. Then you should turn it off to save memory and buy the cheapest card you can find with it's own memory.
Most server motherboards have cheap onboard video which doesn't use much in the way of system resources; that generally makes the most sense.
If you're writing about desktops, then what you need is what you should get.
Jeff
If you're writing about your servers, considering that generally they'll be in a datacenter, and almost always they'll never had xWindows installed, especially not displaying to a local monitor, you really don't care what kind of video it runs. Generally you'll want to run onboard video, unless the onboard video uses a lot of memory and you can turn it off. Then you should turn it off to save memory and buy the cheapest card you can find with it's own memory.
Most server motherboards have cheap onboard video which doesn't use much in the way of system resources; that generally makes the most sense.
If you're writing about desktops, then what you need is what you should get.
Jeff