Do I need to buy a graphics card with openGL? [closed]

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Published on 2011-06-28T22:09:39Z Indexed on 2011/06/29 0:31 UTC
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I'm building my own computer right now, and I've found a very good combo deal on a graphics card with monitors. I will be using mostly Linux of course, but I'd like to be able to do some windows work as well. I will do some gaming, but mostly just graphical design with blender. So how important is it that my graphics card supports openGL?

This is the deal i'm looking at:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.636041

Sorry if this isn't the correct forum for this. Please let me know if you know of someplace better I could ask this.

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