[gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread Fernando Boaglio
Hi, =DI would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce NVidia!My old GeForce2 it's really bugging me, freezing my desktop sometimes, which gave me the error "NVRM  XID: 0008".  =( I don't see people complaining about this error at Nvidia forums with new boards, only GForce2 and

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread plaf
i recently purchased an nsilencer 6600gt, i really like it. it has 256mb and it has zero sound emmission hence the name. on my box, glxgears gives about 6300fps with it. it was around $110CDN On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:37 -0200, Fernando Boaglio wrote: > > Hi, =D > > I would like to hear from your

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread Bob Sanders
Fernando Boaglio, mused, then expounded: > Hi, =D > > I would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce > NVidia! > While the 5200/5500 may be the least cost, I've been running a 6200/128MB in one system and it's been fine with the 8178 drivers @ 1600x1024. But that's about t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 11:57, Bob Sanders wrote: > Fernando Boaglio, mused, then expounded: > > Hi, =D > > > > I would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce > > NVidia! > > While the 5200/5500 may be the least cost, I've been running a 6200/128MB > in one system and it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread B Vance
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:37 -0200, Fernando Boaglio wrote: > > Hi, =D > > I would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce > NVidia! > > My old GeForce2 it's really bugging me, freezing my desktop sometimes, > which > gave me the error "NVRM XID: 0008". =( > > I don't s

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/11/06, Fernando Boaglio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, =D > > I would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce > NVidia! > It might be overkill for what you want, but I have an Nvidia Quadro FX 330 working quite well on my x86_64 box. Good OpenGL performance, and it s

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread James Chapman
I have a new 7800GT and it runs perfectly. Had to install the drivers manually (emerge kept breaking everything) but it is really really awesome. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ glxgears 57792 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11558.400 FPS 68485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13697.000 FPS 68615 frames in 5.0 seconds =

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-11 Thread Roy Wright
James Chapman wrote: I have a new 7800GT and it runs perfectly. Had to install the drivers manually (emerge kept breaking everything) but it is really really awesome. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ glxgears 57792 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11558.400 FPS 68485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13697.000 FPS 68615 fra

Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!

2006-01-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 20:37, Fernando Boaglio wrote: > Hi, =D > > I would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce > NVidia! > > My old GeForce2 it's really bugging me, freezing my desktop sometimes, > which > > gave me the error "NVRM XID: 0008". =( > > I don't see pe