Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

[Curtis Rey <crrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.