Re: State of 3d video, which vendor has best support?
quote who=John Nielsen On Monday 08 September 2008, KlaymenDK wrote: I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati, or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these nowadays? This is becoming a FAQ. You should be able to find some good information in a couple of relatively recent threads. The nutshell summary (in my opinion, from memory) is this: * nVidia support is good w/ the binary driver on i386. Not available on amd64. * ati support is great for hardware supported by radeon(4x). The manpage has a pretty good list. Better support for fancier cards (hd, etc) is coming but not quite all the way there. * intel support is very good. Not quite as many souped-up options but modern onboard intel graphics are more than adequate for almost anything, including many games. That's excellent! Believe you me, I've done rather a lot of googling, but it's tricky to come up with the right mix of keywords to not be flooded with wrong results. Thank you so very much! FYI, I will buy a (Sapphire?) Radeon HD3850, because it has dual DVI out and *very* low idle power draw. I shall have to take my chances with the not quite all the way there HD support. :o) KlaymenDK -- 010\001\111 -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
State of 3d video, which vendor has best support?
Hi all, I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati, or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these nowadays? I'm planning to use FreeBSD (duh) mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed, desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the occasional BZFlag (call me oldschool). Which vendor I choose will affect my options for motherboard and (onboard/separate) video, which will affect my choice of CPU, and so on. So this seems to be a fundamental question, but I can't find an authoritative guide to 3D in FreeBSD. Any tips? :o) KlaymenDK -- 010\001\111 -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: State of 3d video, which vendor has best support?
On Monday 08 September 2008, KlaymenDK wrote: I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati, or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these nowadays? This is becoming a FAQ. You should be able to find some good information in a couple of relatively recent threads. The nutshell summary (in my opinion, from memory) is this: nVidia support is good w/ the binary driver on i386. Not available on amd64 ati support is great for hardware supported by radeon(4x). The manpage has a pretty good list. Better support for fancier cards (hd, etc) is coming but not quite all the way there intel support is very good. Not quite as many souped-up options but modern onboard intel graphics are more than adequate for almost anything, including many games. Personally I would look for Intel gfx in a laptop and a well-supported ATI card for a desktop. I'm planning to use FreeBSD (duh) mainly as a quad-core, dual-headed, desktop workstation, but would very much like to be able to play the occasional BZFlag (call me oldschool). Which vendor I choose will affect my options for motherboard and (onboard/separate) video, which will affect my choice of CPU, and so on. So this seems to be a fundamental question, but I can't find an authoritative guide to 3D in FreeBSD. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
