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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the |
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>> performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want. |
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> AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series doesn't really have 2d hardware |
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> anymore - everything is done in the 3d part - and the drivers to support that |
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> are harder to write than anticipated. |
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I'm running two boxes, gentoo (~x86 OC-3GHz Q9300) and a kubuntu (0804 |
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Q6600), each with 8600GTS and KDE 3.5.9. Desktop performance (3840x1200 |
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and 1920x1200) is fine. I'm hoping that KDE4.x doesn't hit ~x86 until |
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the nvidia drivers are fixed, otherwise I'll be in the market for new GPUs. |
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Also I recently replaced a blown eVGA 7600GT (5 caps popped) in my |
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LinuxMCE system with a 9800GT. This system mainly uses libxine for |
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playing ripped DVDs with upscaling to 1080p. So far (only viewed 3 |
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movies) performance is looking good. |
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