When it comes to Linux, I always recommend Nvidia-based video cards.  ATI
has a very bad history of driver support in Linux.

Chris

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Chris Faulkner <[email protected]>wrote:

> Not trying to sound like a nvidia fanboi, but the 9800's is a pretty
> good deal in the nvidia line unless you want to go with the GTX 240
> series.  Linux support seems better on the nVidia side than the ATI
> side.  I've always had problems with ATI cards in linux.  never had a
> problem with nVidia in linux in my personal endeavors.
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The new 5770 cards with GDDR5 are quite nicely priced at $150 after
> > rebate... I just bought the "overclocked" one by Diamond and so far I
> like
> > it, though I have not done ANYTHING that would use the 3d portion yet....
> > like I said I just got it... yesterday.
> >
> > Almost all manufacturers use reference designs as their card
> manufacturing
> > process so they are all pretty much the same.  The overclocked models are
> > the same, they just have hand picked GPUs that are tested and stable at
> > higher clock speeds.
> >
> > Andy
> >
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