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On 11/4/05, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > I'm currently putting together (ordering parts for) another machine. It > will be a AMD64 X2. Now I'm looking into a video card for this. Up till > now, I've always used NVidia. But I also want to test 3D acceleration > under Ingo's -rt patch. So now I need something that does not have a > priority module. > > I'm not much of a gamer, although I do play every so often. So I don't > need the highest quality card, but I also want something that is still > pretty good. For example, I currently have a NVidia GeForce 6800 GT > card. So I'm hoping to get something equivalent. > > I'm looking at the ATI Radeons. > > Any recommendations? (links to info would also be nice ;-) > > Thanks, > > -- Steve Not a recommendation. Just a point to be aware of. The ATI Radeons, to get the best acceleration, seem to require that you use the ATI closed source drivers. Currently I haven't found an ATI closed source driver that supports 2.6.14. so I'm forced to use the Xorg radeon driver. I have no idea if this is very good. I don't think so as my glxgear numbers are pretty low. Much lower than the ATI driver running on 2.6.13-X. NOTE: I'm horrible at setting up all the 3D stuff as I don't understand what to chose and what to avoid. This could be far better than the results I get! - Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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