Fw: Video card suggestion

["Jerry Wong" <jerrywkwong@netvigator.com>]

Dear all,

I have just  raised a question on whether to adopt ATI or Nvidia in my new 
PC?
"I'm going to build a new PC to replace my old PC.  As there is many adverse 
comment on the Phenom, I would buy a Althon X2 (probably 5000+ Black 
Edition).  For the MO, I will select either the Asus M3A78-emh-hdmi  or 
M3N78-EMH HDMI.  It is a matter of ATI or Nvidia.  As these two MO are not 
yet ready in the market, could you give me some comments based on the 
performance of M2N-VM DH (GeForce 6150SE + nForce 430 ) and M2A-VM HDMI (AMD 
690G + SB600)."

It seems that I have got the answer - I should continue to stick to Nvidia. 
:-)

Jerry Wong

But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to
new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steve" <sfreilly@roadrunner.com>
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Video card suggestion


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> Ron Johnson wrote:
> | On 02/10/08 17:45, 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?
> |
> | They've opened their specs, but good 3D video drivers take time to
> | write.  Maybe in two years I'll get an ATI card, but maybe then
> | again maybe I'll buy another NVIDIA, in recognition that they put
> | their money where their mouth was at a time when most h/w OEMs
> | wouldn't give FLOSS projects the time of day...
> |
> |>        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
> |
> | Unless you are doing *serious* 3D work, Linux just does *not* need
> | leading-edge video.
> |
> | I purchased a fanless PCI-e ASUS EN7200GS card with 256MB (maybe
> | 128MB) RAM from NewEgg, and am very happy with it.
> |
>
> ive been using nvidia cards on all my computers with linux over the last
> ~ 4 years with good luck. (proprietary driver) Tried an ATI card a couple
> years ago and wound up putting it my sons windows box, as I couldnt get
> it to work properly with 3d on suse was what I was using at the time.
> but that was a couple years ago.  I use the ati proprietary driver on my
> laptop now, and have decent performance with it.  I believe the general
> consensus is on all the lists I subscribe to is that nvidia is generally
> more advanced at this point, but ati is slowly coming around.  If it
> were me, id stick with nvidia for now, good luck.
>
>
> - --
> Steve Reilly
>
> http://reillyblog.com
>
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