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Hi, |
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I know this question is vague but I'm not a gamer so excuse my |
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ignorance and thanks in advance. |
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I'm building a machine that is somewhat over the top for power - i7 |
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980x 6 core, hyperthreaded for 12 processing threads, lots of cache, |
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24GB DRAM, 1TB RAID0 and 500GB RAID1. The main job for this machine is |
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to run maybe 5 copies of Windows 7 ( 10 threads ) doing number |
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crunching and Gentoo-AMD64 as the host. (If I ever find Open Source to |
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do what I'm using Windows for but that's for another thread in the |
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future.) |
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Anyway, the machine is coming together and I need to get a graphics |
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adaper. I don't plan on doing much gaming, at least right now, but if |
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I wanted to get __moderately__ high-end graphics performance under |
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Linux what would I buy? Generally I prefer Open Source drivers but I'm |
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not political about it and historically have had better results with |
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NVidia than ATI but I own both and both work. |
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I don't want to go over the top price-wise as it's not the purpose |
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of this machine at all, but I might as well have a little fun once in |
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awhile if possible. Assume maybe $200 for the card unless there's |
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something to really be gained going up a bit more. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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