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 ;)
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... :(
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=C...
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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On Friday 29 October 2004 09:28 am, Justin Thiessen wrote:
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=C... goryHardwareVendor
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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On Friday 29 October 2004 8:28 am, Justin Thiessen wrote:
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? Radeons up to the 9200 are supported.
I hadn't though of that, though I would have thought this would be the type of thing that SuSE would package with their distro -- after all, I supposedly /have/ 3D support out-of-the-box with SuSe 9.1, but I'm seeing evidence that this support is [perhaps] "a little lacking". [most notably: the frame rate in UT2k4's "tricky" map is hideous whenever the view includes flames!]
But, back to the suggestion: after reading it a bit, however, I see that these use Xorg instead of XFree86 -- how "involved" is the changeover? [or does the new 9.2 release use Xorg, so perhaps going the "official" upgrade route would be easier?]
Tom
p.s. I did find some links from the DRI page that lead me to a comparison table, so at least I know the guy at Fry's wasn't that far off [seems the ATI 9000 falls between an nvidia 5200 and 5500, which is "good to know"]
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 ;)
I currently have an ATI 9000
I have an ATI 9200 SE and it is working fine with 64 bit (though I don't play many games on it). IIRC, there are ATI 64 bit drivers up to 9200, so your 9000 should be supported already.
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