Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:56:42 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help me pick a replacement graphics card? Message-ID: <200701212156.48294.kirk@strauser.com>
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--nextPart17808813.U8RshLo0fU Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline My aging GeForce MX 400 is dying and I want to replace it with something a = bit=20 more modern. My desktop is running FreeBSD 6.2 on a Asus A7V (Via chipset)= =20 motherboard with a 1.4GHz Athlon. This is more of a hardward question than= =20 software, although pointers to any FreeBSD-specific driver gotchas would be= =20 appreciated. Basically, I want to run a few OpenGL apps (particular the "Second Life"=20 client, which works perfectly under Linux emulation), so I pretty much have= =20 to use the "nvidia" driver and not the open "NV" driver. The old card's=20 performance was fine for my purposes, so almost much anything at all newer= =20 should be OK. Therefore, I don't want to spend a lot of money on this. =20 However, I don't want to buy a card so old that NVidia will drop support fo= r=20 it in the next driver upgrade, as they did with this current card. My motherboard has an AGP 4x slot that the "nvidia" driver wants to run in = 2x=20 mode because it doesn't like the Via chipset. Now, it seems like there are= =20 precious few AGP 4x cards available these days; most look like 8x. Are tho= se=20 backward compatible all the way to 2x? Google returns plenty of=20 authoritative-sounding hits on both sides. Is there anything else I should be looking for? Any specific models you mi= ght=20 recommend? =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart17808813.U8RshLo0fU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFtDYA5sRg+Y0CpvERApJyAJ9jYCEIUBuOXX81GtS/2gSNC+5yewCfSmtf cnkEBowCQmha+o93fEfScl8= =jYZ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17808813.U8RshLo0fU--
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