-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian St. Pierre wrote: > Hi - > > I'm assembling a new pc and have gotten bogged down on video card choices. > Can someone here recommend a card? > > * under US$80 > * PCI Express -- motherboard is ASUS M2N-E which has PCIE > * take advantage of hw 3d acceleration (optional? willing to wait a bit for > an open driver) > > The PC will use an AMD Athlon 64 X2. My 3d needs are fairly light, I'm not a > gamer, just doing occasional 3d modeling. (And this will blow away my current > PC even if all 3d is done in software.) > > I was looking at Nvidia cards, but ATI Radeon seems to be *much* better > supported.
The nouveau project still has a long way to go, so Nvidia cards won't give you 3D acceleration with free drivers. All ATI cards up to the X850 are supported by free drivers. Have a look at the X600 and X700, those should be available for unter 80$. Philipp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFlAcFbtUV+xsoLpoRAsO4AJ9t59mxlt5bk4eKq6pRRCm2yDWSpQCbBIun CvM+CxXfKI3eRBQTPdm9ui8= =UBVB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
