<quote who="John Nielsen"> > On Monday 08 September 2008, KlaymenDK wrote: >> I'm about to build a new pc, the first in quite a few years. My problem >> is that I can't find out if I should choose a 3D chipset from Intel, Ati, >> or nVidia. What's the state of support, track record, and such for these >> nowadays? > > This is becoming a FAQ. You should be able to find some good information > in a couple of relatively recent threads. > > The nutshell summary (in my opinion, from memory) is this: > * nVidia support is good w/ the binary driver on i386. > Not available on amd64. > * ati support is great for hardware supported by radeon(4x). > The manpage has a pretty good list. Better support for fancier cards > ("hd", etc) is coming but not quite all the way there. > * intel support is very good. Not quite as many souped-up options but > modern onboard intel graphics are more than adequate for almost > anything, including many games.
That's excellent! Believe you me, I've done rather a lot of googling, but it's tricky to come up with the right mix of keywords to not be flooded with wrong results. Thank you so very much! FYI, I will buy a (Sapphire?) Radeon HD3850, because it has dual DVI out and *very* low idle power draw. I shall have to take my chances with the "not quite all the way there" HD support. :o) KlaymenDK -- 010\001\111 -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"