Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:45:31PM -0500, KS wrote: >> I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of >> the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not >> onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video >> card in there. But I'm a bit confused as to which brand to go for: >> Nvidia or ATI. > > It depends (as always). > > -- Do you want or need 3D, or have you been happy with the nv driver? > > -- Do you have philisophical or security concerns around using nVIDIA's > kernel blob driver? > > Check out the opendesktop website and follow the links and see where > things stand right now with ATI. My feeling is that if ATI is opening > up specs, we should support them once the ATI drivers come on line. > That website should let you know. > > Doug.
Yes, 3D is needed at times .... when I want to play games. Although that isn't that often, but still. But when I'm paying for the nVidia or ATI cards, I want their own drivers to work and utilize all the features of the hardware. It is another case that I am using nv instead of nVidia right now, but it is easy to get it working again. How do ATI cards fare in that regards? Is installing and removing ATI drivers ( proprietary ) as easy as nVidia's? How different is the performance? Oh, and how does nouveau fare for nVidia? Has anyone tested it yet? KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]