Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:
> > I'm not looking for the latest video card, just one with good performance > > and open source drivers. > You won't get hardware 3D with nvidia and open source drivers. So > you'll either have to accept the proprietary drivers (which are pretty > good IMO) if you want hardware 3D, or prefer an ATI card supported by > the radeon driver. But I have no current experience with ATI, so > others will have to comment about that side of the world. Hello Richard, Yea, I guess that's why I suggested the nvidia. NObody seems to want to state how well/poor opensource ATI drivers code is working. When I read, what I can find from googling, it's either dated or confusing. I'd go with an ATI card and opensource drivers, if somebody would indicate a card that gives reasonble performance, for less than $200.00 usd. I leaning towards the nvidia 7800 based card. Good performance, reasonable price. Here is the best reference I found on building a cost effective gaming system: http://compreviews.about.com/od/tutorials/a/DIYBudgetGamePC.htm My other concerns are how well is the mobo supported under linux? Since gaming systems run hot, cooling and lm_sensors support seems critical in putting together a gaming system. I not whether I should used a 'water cooler' or if force air cooling is sufficient. If I used a water cooler, should it also cool the gpu on the graphics card? I do not intend to 'overclock' the graphics card at this time. If I cannot determine that this mobo (MSI K9N SLI Platinum) is linux (lm_sensors) friendly, then maybe somebody can/will recommend another mobo that support's SLI and amd64 processors and is not too expensive? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
