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Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes: |
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> > I'm not looking for the latest video card, just one with good performance |
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> > and open source drivers. |
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> You won't get hardware 3D with nvidia and open source drivers. So |
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> you'll either have to accept the proprietary drivers (which are pretty |
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> good IMO) if you want hardware 3D, or prefer an ATI card supported by |
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> the radeon driver. But I have no current experience with ATI, so |
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> others will have to comment about that side of the world. |
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Hello Richard, |
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Yea, I guess that's why I suggested the nvidia. NObody seems to want to |
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state how well/poor opensource ATI drivers code is working. When I read, |
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what I can find from googling, it's either dated or confusing. |
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I'd go with an ATI card and opensource drivers, if somebody would |
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indicate a card that gives reasonble performance, for less than $200.00 usd. |
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I leaning towards the nvidia 7800 based card. Good performance, reasonable |
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price. Here is the best reference I found on building a cost effective |
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gaming system: |
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http://compreviews.about.com/od/tutorials/a/DIYBudgetGamePC.htm |
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My other concerns are how well is the mobo supported under linux? Since gaming |
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systems run hot, cooling and lm_sensors support seems critical in putting |
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together a gaming system. I not whether I should used a 'water cooler' or if |
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force air cooling is sufficient. If I used a water cooler, should it also cool |
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the gpu on the graphics card? I do not intend to 'overclock' the graphics card |
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at this time. If I cannot determine that this mobo (MSI K9N SLI Platinum) is |
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linux (lm_sensors) friendly, then maybe somebody can/will recommend another |
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mobo that support's SLI and amd64 processors and is not too expensive? |
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James |
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