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on 01/30/2014 11:04 PM James wrote the following: |
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> Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: |
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>>> Maybe you chose unwisely?............(get ATI next time) unless |
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>> I've used nVidia cards for many years. When I bought my first one |
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>> (maybe 20 years ago) ATI support in Linux was woeful, and the doggerel |
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>> had it that the hardware was less competent too, so I chose nVidia. |
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>> Since then I've seen more cries for help on this list from ATI |
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>> owners than nVidia, so it's not clear to me which is the better choice |
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>> these days. > Since I don't do bigotry my choice is on technical grounds, |
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>> and I don't > need hardware 3D acceleration. So the jury's still out as |
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>> far as I'm concerned. Well, maybe CUDA might ramp up my contribution |
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>> rate to BOINC projects a bit. Again, no obvious winner. |
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> I agree with all you have said. However Nvidia's policies, not their |
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> hardware, is the problem, hence the degraded comment on their reputation. |
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> A company may struggle with the latest, robust hardware, but they |
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> do not have to behave as "jerks". Nvidia's lack of copperation with |
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> their old hardware, puts them in the "jerks" column in my mindset. |
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> Even cisco provides full and complete sources, (from russia with love!). |
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> The person is using old hardware, and for a very long time, ATI has |
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> been the better choice for folks using old (video) hardware. He's not |
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> pushing the limits of performance; he just wants (needs?) a video card with |
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> an open source solution. I like to (stongly) suggest to folks to |
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> use their "checkbook" to influence the behavior of vendors, ymmv. |
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> Folks with low_dollars are almost aways better off with ATI, particualar |
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> if they intend to run 'vintage video hardware', imho. |
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James, I agree with you in general about supporting "open source |
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friendly vendors", but in this case, I would agree with Peter, because I |
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find that Nvidia although not so "open" as ATI, has been better |
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supporting (quicker to release drivers) for its newer cards than ATI does. |
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On the other hand, the old system I was talking about, is an Athlon 754 |
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socket, with an NVIDIA G71 [GeForce 7800 GS] (rev a2) card. |
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I believe this card can use up the system's AGP bus (and the CPU) to its |
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limits, so I don't feel I should bother to change the card to an ATI |
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one, since I wouldn't gain any performance, except perhaps, for a |
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"radeon" driver in the kernel, which I doubt would perform as well as |
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the Nvidia's one. |
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Anyway, this Nvidia-vs-ATI discussion is going OT in the current thread. |
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And I think that we can close the current thread here. |
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Thanks to all for your help :) |
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