On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 08:28 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
I say "damn the torpedoes" and get yourself an Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX card. 8-)
I'm replacing an NVidia 6800GT 8x AGP w/256MB of DDR3.
Its a good card.
But I'm tired of mucking with their proprietary drivers all the time. Especially since it is unstable at 8x on my MB, so every time I evaluate a new distro, and every time a new kernel patch is issued, I have to mess with making sure that the kernel headers are installed and the nvidia package is unpacked and knows where the kernel headers are, and go into one of the c files in their glue layer and edit it to force 4x and then manually compile and install (after agreeing, yet again, to their license agreement). All for the privilege of getting working 3D on NVidia's card.
The Radeon 9100 is an old card with only a fraction of the power of the 6800 but I'm already loving it. There are some things that money just can't buy. :-)
-Steve