If you can find it, get a GTX 550 ti. Last time Newegg was selling it it went for ~$110. I've had better luck with nvidia's linux drivers than with AMD's.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Nathan England <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I'm looking to incite a flame war. I was under the impression that the ATI > graphics driver that is open-sourced was being developed by the community, > not > directly by AMD. Is it true that AMD is developing the driver itself? > > I want to buy a new video card that is capable of playing a few games I > like > to kill time with, probably in windows until Steam gets some more linux > stuff, > but I also want good support in my KDE environment. > > I have always stuck with Intel because it has awesome support in Linux... > Now > I need to choose between nVidia and AMD. Because of many comments and > support > for AMD I recently purchased a new AMD machine that I intend to use for my > development server, but until I replace my workstation, I am using it for > that. It has an AMD graphics built in Radeon HD 6530D. I have been > pleasantly > surprised by this card using the open source driver, but I'm wondering how > it > would work with the proprietary driver, and I'm a little scared to attempt > to > install it. > > If you were going to buy a new card today (sub-$100) what would you buy and > why? I value your opinions, which are also more current than what Google is > returning... > > I appreciate your thoughts! > > Nathan England > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Sam Morales IT Aquaveo /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
