I'll probably be getting a new video card (for desktop and gaming use) in the coming months, and I'm trying to figure out which manufactures (of chipsets) to look at to get one that will work well in Linux. I know the wisdom I used to be basically just buy an card with an NVIDIA chipset, because they were supposedly the only one for which decent 3D acceleration drivers existed for Linux. Is that still the case?
In more recent times I've heard some praise for Intel video chipsets under Linux, and I've read that VIA and ATI are supposedly opening up their specs so that Linux drivers should improve. Are any of these others worth a serious look, or will they all still perform poorly compared to NVIDIA in Linux? I should probably emphasize that whatever games I might be playing would be under Linux too (possibly using Crossover games, I don't dual boot). Two additional questions for extra credit: 1) My motherboard says it has "1 PCI Express x16 slot but only provides x8 bandwidth." Would I be correct in thinking that I should be able to put a x16 card in there and have it work (with reduced performance) until a future date when I get a better motherboard? 2) I've been looking for some price vs. performance charts, comparing price and benchmark scores across a wide variety of cards, but I haven't found many recent ones. Anyone seen any recently? Thanks, Nick
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