On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > My first choice is on-board Intel graphics for most of the stuff I do,
That is probably a good choice for you, but I would take nvidia for my desktop, if for nothing else than I haven't really had a chance to try the Intel DRI code in Solaris. For laptops, there is no question that Intel is an excellent choice, since the laptops with integrated Intel chipsets seem to be much better in the way of power effeciency. And with Intel's advocacy and support of OpenSolaris, I don't think buying Intel could be a bad thing. > because core functionality, power efficiency, and open source are all > important to me. Some of the nVidia offerings are nearly as nice (I > use a Quadro NVS285 lower end passively cooled product), and they have a > wider range of products and discrete cards. For dual head support, nvidia is most likely better, I use an FX-1100 with 2 heads 1600x1200. I haven't seen a lot of Intel graphics that will do that type of support. In fact, I just bought my son an nvidia adapter for the holidays, we tried to get an ATI adapter working on Windows XP (his gaming machine, I make him use a Mac for all his school work.;-). Anyway, we tried every single driver for Windows that ATI had available, not one would work. They were always crashing on him, during the games he plays. I don't know all which games, but do know he plays a fair amount of WarCraft. This cheap nvidia card works awesome for him, his system hasn't crashed in 3D graphics since Xmas. When I was looking around the ATI forums over the break, I can tell you that there's some un-happy folks out there, and some very vocal ones, go check the ATI forums out yourself.;-) I figure if they can't even get the driver right on Windows, they really got some problems. Here's the card we got: http://www.centralcomputers.com/commerce/ccp57431--evga-geforce-8600gt-256mb-gddr3-pci-express-28256-256-p2-n751-tr-vgaevga8602r.htm This would probably work great on Solaris also. At least for SLI. That is why we had to get him a video to begin with, he old machine was PCI/AGP...:-( Intel and Nvidia are the ones I would reccomend also, and as far as support, Intel has to get the nod, with their participation in the community. Intel graphics on laptops has a lot more options. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
