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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:17:17 +0200 |
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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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<SNIP> |
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> Stay away from NVidia. Good performing cards, but their Linux support |
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> is atrocious (and that's being kind to them) |
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> |
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> ATI are not much better but at least they make something of an effort |
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> to publish some specs. |
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> |
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> Intell cards are the best supported and the worst performing I'm |
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> afraid |
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I'm afraid I must step in here a little: |
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never had I had any trouble with 3d accel with my small 6200TC, "on |
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contraire": updateing the drivers just got the small rat faster and |
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faster. There were some trouble with mm kernel, but one shouldn't get |
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any hopes with 3d and mm. And I'm talking about a cheap video-card here |
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that can play 3d games in hosted os. |
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ATI on the other hand with all it's specs released, has not convinced |
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me. I had a lot more trouble with it as an experienced gentooer than I |
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had with nvidia as a newbe. ATI-s floss drivers don't support all |
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chips, the official ones have trouble supporting new APIs, cedega |
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issues and so on and so forth. Even so I think you can get the job done |
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but with much more time/effort consumed than one would expect. |
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> > but i |
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> > am very confused about the motherboard. The cheapest shop vendor |
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> > only have asus motherboard so i don't have much choice. |
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> > - Asus P5E X38 DDR2 for 189 € |
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> > - Asus P5K/pro iP35 for 114 € |
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> > - Asus P5N32-E/SLI 680i for 199€ |
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> > - Asus P5N-T dlx 780i 232€ |
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I to am a proud owner of and Asus MB, changed it twice wile in |
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warranty, because the ethernet burned out and some chip-fan decided to |
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take a vacation, but as for compatibility/performance i have only good |
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words for it |
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> Look further afield. Don't limit yourself to just one shop based on |
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> price. The price difference between motherboards isn't that great |
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> when compared to the cost of an entire box, and the wrong decision |
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> can be very painful in the future |
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Aint all that bad. My brother's MSI botherbord with highly unstable |
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cooling system and a burned USB hub(that was a cool party) still gets |
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him 8 days uptime |
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> > Someone have one of those cards or know a good site with information |
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> > about linux compatibility for those cards? |
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Your google-fu will help you here. The force is strong within you |
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> > The SLI capability is not important as having ethernet or sound |
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> > supported on linux. |
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Should you follow the path of the manual you'll find interesting links |
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about sound cards support on linux, as for ethernet, if you dan;t have |
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drivers from linux you can use the windows ones(this is true for |
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ethernet to right?) |
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