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From: James Chapman <jvchapman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice!
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:46:46
Message-Id: 1137026568.7422.2.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] NVidia - advice! by Mike Owen
1 I have a new 7800GT and it runs perfectly.
2 Had to install the drivers manually (emerge kept breaking everything)
3 but it is really really awesome.
4
5 aa@bluepoint ~ $ glxgears
6 57792 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11558.400 FPS
7 68485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13697.000 FPS
8 68615 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13723.000 FPS
9
10 This was while running 8 desktops with at least one application of some
11 sort or another running on each one!
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14 On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:32 -0800, Mike Owen wrote:
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16 > On 1/11/06, Fernando Boaglio <boaglio@×××××.com> wrote:
17 > >
18 > > Hi, =D
19 > >
20 > > I would like to hear from your some advice about buying a new GeForce
21 > > NVidia!
22 > >
23 >
24 > It might be overkill for what you want, but I have an Nvidia Quadro FX
25 > 330 working quite well on my x86_64 box. Good OpenGL performance, and
26 > it supports 2 DVI monitors for a very usable desktop.
27 >
28 > Mike
29 >
30
31 James Chapman
32 http://www.uplinkzero.com/
33
34 Linux User #294272 (http://counter.li.org)

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