Kep Woof wrote:
i need to have direct rendering and dual head dvi. in 2006, decent 3d
performance doesn't seem unreasonable, even if it is just to run a
swanky screen saver. i've got an xfx geforce 6800GT sitting around
here that i'd like to use, but it seems this is currently impossible
on amd64. it seems like a huge waste to run the i386 version on an
amd64 machine,
I can't comment on the difference because I didn't bother with amd64 for
the very reasons you mention. But, for me, A8V plus single core AMD
4000 + 6800GT is plain bloody fast. Most regular work things I run on
it go faster than a single CPU 2.8Ghz Dell 2850, and though you can beat
a 6800GT these days, the only way to really *trounce* it is to run two
graphics cards with SLI and I'm not sure FreeBSD supports that yet.
It'll certainly run your screen saver :-) Runs cool too.
There might be better mobos than an A8V these days - I got mine a year
ago - but pretty much everything on it works. COM2 needs some kind of
expansion but I only needed one.
You can always switch to amd64 if NVidia ever do provide drivers. You
could also "me too" on their message boards which might make some tiny
difference.
--Alex
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