On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 18:17 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Mon December 20 2004 4:21 pm, Richard wrote:
I have also been scared by what seem to be lots of problems posting to this list about getting nVidia cards to work. Is that all old hat now, with dirivers working and easily available/installable and hunky-dory? Generally, my needs are commonplace usage, some graphics and photo work, mostly light duty, some gaming (Quake when I can get it to run, as I have not recently). Thanks for suggestions. Please don't let me be the instigator of a big flame war; I just want to know what people think of the "other" cards and what might be similar to ATI maybe 9200, 9600, like that.
I have nVidia and no problems. If I were to get another one, I'd want an 8200 series.
I'm just getting my machine back up after a month of being down due to a power supply warranty issue, and I just tried to get Quake2 to run again. It segfaults on the OpenGL driver, but the software renderer still works. Ah well. Nostalgia. A lot of reviews I've seen say that the card to get these days -- the best price/performance ratio -- is a 6600 GT. If I hadn't just dropped $700 upgrading to a nice SATA RAID setup, I'd have bought on by now. (The power supply ate my SCSI card, or the other way around.) http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1701&page=12 dk