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From: Davyd McColl <davydm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:25:56
Message-Id: 166bb47dd08.278f.83c5c26c404a765ed2e55e3ab0c1c65d@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise by Philip Webb
1 Apologies - green is nvidia and red is amd. No special code - that's just
2 their primary marketing colors.
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4 -d
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7 On October 28, 2018 17:03:32 Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
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9 > 181028 Davyd McColl wrote:
10 >>> 181028 Philip Webb : Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card.
11 >> Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers.
12 >> My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red.
13 >> you can't be held hostage with binary blobs. And they're cheaper.
14 >
15 > Sorry, I don't understand your red/green code.
16 >
17 >>> Upgrade to the 1050 or so and you won’t have to upgrade for years.
18 >>> I am still on my GTX 980 since 2015.
19 >
20 > I looked at my local store (Canada Computers, College St, Toronto)
21 > & they offer an Asus GeForce GT1030 LP for CAD 120 :
22 > it runs at 1228 MHz & has 2 GB memory @ 3004 MHz with 64-bit i/face.
23 > My mobo is an Asus M5A97 AMD, which I bought 3 years ago .
24 >
25 > Does anyone see a problem using this card with Nvidia & my mobo ?
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