On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 00:05, Richard wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 8:38 pm, B. Stia wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 18:53, Richard wrote: ...............<snip a bunch>............
Nvidia has probably provided the best "manufacturer" video card support for Linux over anyone else out there.
I'll agree with this. I won't buy anything BUT Nvidia. I'll take a Pentium 133 with a 16 MB Nvidia card before I would a Pentium 4 with a 256 MB top of the line ATI...... Wait no I won't, I'd sell that ATI card and buy an Nvidia and keep the processor... Ah well.
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So given these facts, here are some conclusions:
2. _Avoid_ the GeForce FX5200, 5500 and even 5600XT, even if they have 256MB of RAM. They _suck_. In the "best case scenario," about the only place they can "match" the GeForce 4 Ti4200-4800 is in Doom3 with _all_ of the options _jacked_up_ (including Isotropic Filtering). But then you're running at 10fps, so it doesn't matter. ;-ppp
I'm going to have to give you a kick in the head for this though.... This box has an Nvidia GE Force FX 5200 with 128 MBs, and it play Unreal Tournament 2003 and the original and it plays Doom, and quake, and Unreal 2, and Tux Racer without a problem. And it was cheap and has it's own fan. My laptop has an Nvidia GE Force FX GO 5200, and I'm happy with that to. Maybe me not giving a shit about FPS makes me this way, but I can watch video, play the games I actually care about, which I named pretty much all of them give or take Tron and solar wolf, and that's the only things I play. Maybe I'll get a Faster Nvidia Card for my Compaq which has a crappy integrated card if I want Doom 3 to fly but for now, no big deal. The first computer I ever bought has an Nvidia card in it with 16 MBs Video, and it can do Tux Racer and UT.
Wow. Answered questions I didn't even know I had, and gives me some pretty good direction. And far more concise than what I might have finally come up with after hours of searching thru current and old Anandtech articles, usually my source for techie reviews, even tho I know these get dated very fast and don't show how cards/chips/boards perform over time, or stack up over time. Thank you very much for the info and time you put into finding this. Richard
always buy Nvidia. I've never even attempted to try another card and I won't. That's UNIX elitism right there. It's not broken so I'll not even bother trying to break it so I can fix it ;) AllwindowsTechnologyIdiots Nvidia rocks and has actual Drivers for Free BSD and Linux and they proudly support it. They are great for making the same quality drivers on Linux as Windows.