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 this machine is to run maybe 5 copies of Windows 7 ( 10 threads ) doing number crunching and Gentoo-AMD64 as the host. (If I ever find Open Source to do what I'm using Windows for but that's for another thread in the future.) Anyway, the machine is coming together and I need to get a graphics adaper. I don't plan on doing much gaming, at least right now, but if I wanted to get __moderately__ high-end graphics performance under Linux what would I buy? Generally I prefer Open Source drivers but I'm not political about it and historically have had better results with NVidia than ATI but I own both and both work. I don't want to go over the top price-wise as it's not the purpose of this machine at all, but I might as well have a little fun once in awhile if possible. Assume maybe $200 for the card unless there's something to really be gained going up a bit more. Cheers, Mark
