On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:18:53AM -0700, Tom Emerson wrote:
well, after seeing several posts to the effect that ATI doesn't have 64 bit drivers while nvidia does, it seems it is time to switch alliances ;)
Have you checked out the latest version of the open source driver? According to: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ATI?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareVendor Radeons up to the 9200 are supported. Justin Thiessen --------------- jthiessen@penguincomputing.com
I currently have an ATI 9000 ["powered by" rather than "built by"], and I'm wondering what the closest rough equivalent is in the nvidia line -- an unusually helpful Fry's guy tells me it would be about the same as a 5500 series card [seems he plays games too... :) ] Depending on brand, the cost seems to range from $90 to $150. They had one [returned] 5700 "LE" board for about $10 more, and then everything jumps to the 6800 series at $300 or $400 [with the higher price going for twice the memory at 1ghz memory speed vs. 700mhz]
Since I've just upgraded to a 64 bit system, I'm a little hesitant to dump another $400 into this [kind of makes the overall cost of my upgrade sound less fantastic, since this will push it into the $1600+ range]
I'd really like to stick with ATI, but if the drivers aren't there, well, it gets to be time to move on... :(
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