On Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:24 am, Thibaut Cousin wrote:
Thanks to James and Curtis for their quick answers! You indeed helped me a lot (I was considering buying a G550 dual head, now I'm not so sure). My reservation about Nvidia is not about the closed source drivers, it's because I know that some Nvdia have very, very bad quality TV-out. It's nice to see that some cards are not so bad, so I'll try to find the same as you. James, you have a Ge4-Ti4200, Curtis, which one do you have? Thanks again,
Le Lundi 26 Mai 2003 20:54, Curtis Rey a écrit :
I understand your reservations about using a nvidia card. I follow vid card devel fairly closely, and ATi is kicking some serious butt. However, they have, and continue to, lag somewhat on making a robust driver set for Linux (pity). Some swear by it but I understand it can be inconsistent (driver wise that is).
Nvidia's drivers work nicely and the new nvidia "run" routine program to install the drivers simplifies things a fari amount.
Just something to consider.
I have a GF3-ti200. But with the GF-FX series out now the price of either a GF3 or 4 should drop considerably. If you go for a GF3 get the ti500, faster chipset/ramdac, etc.... or GF4 anything but MX. Actually I believe the GF4 has better overlay abilities. HTH. Curtis.