Re: Video card suggestion
On Sun February 10 2008 03:45:31 pm KS wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of
> the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not
> onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video
> card in there. But I'm a bit confused as to which brand to go for:
> Nvidia or ATI.
>
> I have had a 5700LE Nvidia card(AGP) and it has been working great with
> it's proprietary drivers (and nv driver also). I got it almost 2years
> ago. How has the graphics cards scene changed since then? Does ATI based
> cards support 3D acceleration and are as easily recognized as Nvidia
> cards? The ones that looked attractive (price wise) are:
>
> ATI:
> ASUS EAH2600XT/HTDP/256M Radeon HD 2600XT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI
> Express x16
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121082
>
> SAPPHIRE 100220L Radeon HD 2600XT 256MB 128-bit GDDR4 PCI Express x16
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102708
>
> MSI RX2600XT-T2D512EZ Radeon HD 2600XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127298
>
> as opposed to - Nvidia:
> XFX PVT84JUDD3 GeForce 8600GT XXX 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150229
>
> MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express
> x16 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127284
>
> XFX PVT84GUDF3 GeForce 8600GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150228
I have always used an nvidia card myself, and they work well for me. I run a
5700LE also as well as a 6200 with 256mb. The drivers haven't been in testing
for quite a while so if you use testing you'll need to get the packages from
unstable. I find nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx works well.
I have been looking over the ati stuff lately though. They use the fglrx
package and soon they will also have the aiglx packages (don't know much
about these).
I think my next video card will be an ati (owned by amd now I think) and see
how it goes.
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