I use the 8600 with nvidia's proprietary drivers. No problems. I've heard that ati doesn't have as good linux support but I have no experience with them.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Neil Sikka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yea i also use Nvidia under Linux, and it woks perfectly. I play Doom 3 > under Linux, and it works very well. I have an 8800GTS by XFX. no > complaints. i heard the ATI driers are sketchy even for windows, but that > was some time ago, and i dont have experience with ATI... > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Ed Kohlwey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I use NVIDIA and am for the most part happy with the cards, I've gone >> through about 4 of them in the last two years if you count my laptop >> cards too. >> >> I can't say good things about ATI. I've known a number of people with >> them and its always been a hassle to get things working. That having >> been said, there's been a lot of buzz about ATI contributing to open >> source drivers, and the coming wave of super duper ATI Linux drivers; I >> just don't know anyone who has had a positive experience to date. >> >> I know a few people who are having decent success with the intel chipset >> based cards. In general, they're certainly enough to run compiz fusion >> or warzone 2100. >> >> I don't keep up with the latest in graphics cards, but I've read some >> articles about benchmarking not adequately describing cards' >> performance. I know there's a site out there somewhere that does its >> reviews by actually playing a number of the most popular current games >> on the card, and that would probably be your best bet. Unfortunately, >> this is something that I haven't looked at for a while so I can't point >> you to particular resources. >> >> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:08 -0400, Nick Cummings wrote: >> > 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 >> > > > > > -- > Neil Sikka >
