On Tuesday 13 May 2003 16:29, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
->With all due respect, the nvidia drivers in the Linux world are the ->best you can get whether they are or are not open source. ->> ->> I have an nvidia card, and I don't like it. To be precise, I don't like ->> that the driver is closed source. Too many problems :-( ->>
Let's see. I had Diamond nVidia cards until about a year ago. I had a 330, 550 and 770. They ALL worked fine. I was told that ATI worked really well with the Linux community on specs so when I upgraded my 32M TNT2 Viper 770 I went for an ATI Radeon 7500. Not soon after this ATI joined nVidia in the propriatary driver world so my reason for not buying another nVidia card went down the crapper. Now it doesn't matter and from what I've read the nVidia drivers work better and preform better then ATI's binary only drivers.
I just asked if the card I posted was a good card or not and if someone had experience with one. I don't want to start a debate about closed drivers vs. open drivers. I don't actually care about that anymore. I care aboutr having a nice card with working drivers. I never had any issues with the nVidia drivers really. I *always* got them working with little or no issues.
So..anyone have one of the cards I posted? or Could someone recommend a good card for under $150.00? ;)
GeForce2 = nv15, GeForce4-MX440 = nv17, GeForce3 = nv20, and so on. The difference is some of the engine tweaks. I had one when it first came out and returned it when I realized that it wasn't a true GF4 engine in it, but by all means this isn't a bad card in the least. I pick up a GF3 instead and as very satisfied. If your had the 330/550/770 tnt series this card will literally blow it out of the water. I personally got a GF3-ti200 and it's great. Since the FX series is out expect price drops on everything under it - that's when I bought mine (with the release of the GF4). Also the FX low end cards are comparitivly cheap as well (nvidia now mocks the ati version conventsion 5300, 5400, 55, 6,7.... bleh). Figure on this, the GF4-mx440 is a decent low to mid level card (how it compares to a ati 7500 I don't know - I suspect its better, but could be wrong). But, with the FX out you could probably find a cheap and very nice GF3-ti series board. Like I said I have the ti-200, but the ti-400 has a little better kick and some fairly nice extras in the shader, etc, and the engine pump/pipelines. HTH, Curtis.