Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the >> performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want. > > AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series doesn't really have 2d hardware > anymore - everything is done in the 3d part - and the drivers to support that > are harder to write than anticipated. >
I'm running two boxes, gentoo (~x86 OC-3GHz Q9300) and a kubuntu (0804 Q6600), each with 8600GTS and KDE 3.5.9. Desktop performance (3840x1200 and 1920x1200) is fine. I'm hoping that KDE4.x doesn't hit ~x86 until the nvidia drivers are fixed, otherwise I'll be in the market for new GPUs. Also I recently replaced a blown eVGA 7600GT (5 caps popped) in my LinuxMCE system with a 9800GT. This system mainly uses libxine for playing ripped DVDs with upscaling to 1080p. So far (only viewed 3 movies) performance is looking good.
