Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com wrote: nVidia at the moment is a bit of a risk, as there is a whole raft of issues going on with nVidia hardware. If their drivers work, they will likely give better performance and features than AMDs options, and so long as the

[gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I know this question is vague but I'm not a gamer so excuse my ignorance and thanks in advance. I'm building a machine that is somewhat over the top for power - i7 980x 6 core, hyperthreaded for 12 processing threads, lots of cache, 24GB DRAM, 1TB RAID0 and 500GB RAID1. The main job for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Bridge
nVidia at the moment is a bit of a risk, as there is a whole raft of issues going on with nVidia hardware. If their drivers work, they will likely give better performance and features than AMDs options, and so long as the hardware holds up. Read up on nVidia bumps issue for more information.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
5850 or 5870. You have a hard time to get anything besides a 250 from Nvidia (and Charlie predicted and explained that ...). And a 250 is just a twice rebranded 8800