[NTLUG:Discuss] video card recommendation

[Kisner, Thomas]

My opinion is nVidia, if you don't mind using their proprietary driver.

Their driver has far more functionality than any Radeon driver now.  For
example, hardware mpeg acceleration, Component video out, and other
stuff. 

I'm a MythTV user, and nVidia cards are almost the defacto standard in
the Myth community for "everything" in Myth to work right.  I would
venture to say that among the people that do HDTV with MythTV 95%+ use
nVidia.  My HDTV doesn't have anything except Component input, so using
a nVidia card saves me from having to use a $100+ VGA to Component
converter box.

Of course, if you're just talking about bringing up your favorite
windows manager, either card will do fine.

In future, it looks like the Intel graphics open source driver will be
way better because the information they are giving to the open source
community, but it isn't there yet.

Cheers,

Tom Kisner

>'Scuse me, I meant nVidia, NOT Radeon!
>I've not had trouble with my ATI cards -- although I will confess that
I
>have not been pushing that machine, either.
>
>- -Steve
>
>Stephen Davidson wrote:
| ???
| Its Radeon that I am having trouble with because of the broken
drivers.
| ~ Found some that they release in January, so now flash works, but
they
| broke the ability for me to suspend my machine.  Hangs during wakeup
now.
|
| -Steve
|
| Stuart Johnston wrote:
| | In general, I have had better luck with nvidia cards.  However, if
you a
| | planning to stick with the open drivers, ATI has made a commitment
to
| | improve the open drivers in the future.
| |
| | Ralph wrote:
| |> Howdy,
| |>   I want to build a system with a high end video card and I would
like
| |> to hear people's recommendations.  I have it narrowed down to two
cards.
| |>   eVGA 6200 LE with 256 meg ram
| |>   ATI Radeon X600 256mb meg
| |>  Both cards are PCI-E and are the first cards I will have bought
with
| |> that bus.  My previous high end card is a Ti4200/64mb bought at
Chris
| |> Cox's recommendation and it has done great.  I really can't see how
it
| |> could be improved, but the new system has no AGP slot and I can get
| |> either of the two cards I mention for under $20, which seems like a
lot
| |> for a video card.
| |>  The system is an Intel 915 based motherboard, if that makes a
| |> difference.  I have a 3.4 GHz P4 to use in it and this is going to
be a
| |> general purpose computer.  I plan on staying with all open source
| |> drivers for whichever I get.
| |> Thanks,
| |> Ralph
| |>
| |>
| |>
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