Relatively inexpensive video cards for Linux
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From: Henrik Carlqvist on 24 Jan 2010 14:16 General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > The opensource Nouveau driver gives decent performance It would be nice to see some more Nouveau results at http://free3d.org/ , right now all the contributed results are in the low-end segment with less than 1000 fps. Even a result with the nv driver with software rendering beats the best Nouveau result at the time of this writing (1051 fps with nv vs 660 fps with nouveau). regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: General Schvantzkoph on 24 Jan 2010 18:09 On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:16:41 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist wrote: > General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> The opensource Nouveau driver gives decent performance > > It would be nice to see some more Nouveau results at http://free3d.org/ > , right now all the contributed results are in the low-end segment with > less than 1000 fps. Even a result with the nv driver with software > rendering beats the best Nouveau result at the time of this writing > (1051 fps with nv vs 660 fps with nouveau). > > regards Henrik How many people actually use the NV or Nouveau drivers? I only use them on servers which usually run without X. On any desktop or laptop system I use the Nvidia RPMs from the Fusion repositories. Once you've installed the Fusion repositories on Fedora it's trivial to maintain a system with the binary drivers. It's even easier for Ubuntu users because they don't keep opensource kosher like Redhat does.
From: Jim Cochrane on 31 Jan 2010 16:32
On 2010-01-24, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:16:41 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist wrote: > >> General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> The opensource Nouveau driver gives decent performance >> >> It would be nice to see some more Nouveau results at http://free3d.org/ >> ... Thanks to all that posted responses to my query about inexpensive video cards. I decided to order a GIGABYTE GV-NX84S512HP GeForce 8400 GS 512MB. ($40) I suspect this card, with the nvidia binary drive, will allow me to do what I require (including using googleearth with decent performance). If I run into problems later because of incompatibility with kernel upgrades, I can always, after some pain and swearing, switch to a card with an open-source driver at that point, especially since the GeForce card is so cheap. In case you're interested, here is the entire list of components (all should be here by Monday), with prices: 34.89 [Lite-On 24X Serial ATA DVDRW-LT-IHAS324-24x] 159.99 [Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case] 99.99 [Mushkin XP-650 650W ATX12V SLI Ready Modular Power Supply] 269.99 [GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard] 288.99 [Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601920] 159.99 [Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM] 74.99 [Noctua NH-U12P SE2 120mm SSO CPU Cooler] 38.99 [GIGABYTE GV-NX84S512HP GeForce 8400 GS 512MB Video Card] 258.15 [BL3KIT25664TB1608 6GB kit (2GBx3), Ballistix Tracer 240-pin DIMM (with LEDs) Upgrade for a Giga-Byte GA-EX58-UD5 (rev. 1.0) System] ($239.99, Approximate tax: $10.17, Shipping charges: Express shipping (2 business days) $7.99 Estimated order subtotal: $258.15) Thanks. Jim --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- |