Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:15:17 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Graphics card for new machine -- Radeon vs. GeForce? Message-ID: <20011027171517.D275@localhost>
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Well, the time has finally come to retire the creaking old Pentium on my desk and build a shiny new Athlon XP box :-) So this is going to be the first question of many along the lines of 'which of these wonderful devices should I buy'... First up -- graphics cards. This box will be dual-booting Winblows and I want to get something with decent 3D performance on that side (for entirely serious purposes, like Unreal Tournament, obviously :-). 3D performance on FreeBSD is not so important, although it would be nice, but fully accelerated 2D for X is a must. From reading various reviews and list archives it seems that the ATI Radeon or nVidia GeForce 2/3 fit the bill and have solid 2D support in XFree86 4.x. Is there any particular reason to favour one of these over the other? Are there any instances of cards using these chipsets that I should avoid, or that come highly recommened? All other things being equal I'm leaning towards ATI simply because they seems to have a more reasonable attitute towards the open source community, but if the nVidia stuff is known to work better I could change my mind... TIA, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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