From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Je93z-0000t8-9z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:19:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B171CE065A; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0BBE065A for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c29so925780ika.2 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:19:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=kfUBg/sXetNzJtoJSrfZkhiv7QdLHUq8Q4S/U7S3rSY=; b=syAxiih4aWn4EJ7zgkX7QL6A/yQjFxRUQsTD+oXW0sz1UtT9NPAnEUQma6vV6FVYk69mhoMY0ptLTOpn+T0NTcW1Jqzz4PnEBRqzZIuGdGiPld9PAk6mzyk8WPzo2F09IJkZqPzHl4Jqj0kKf+EOOhuVbA8e8Gocncy05eKjESo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=K8Tf3QwO4iYd4jmOPeqKI1tg2auNBQykPa8x76U7WirwmRP091QxojrUKMxkQ42LAMvbMzX+Rbkg9J8nyyoMEBiWeHNMf1XBXXtGRWrEVhwamznsV/Zzc3HTrGD+SsletNc8nNOZeNcmuwKgl/qnUUA2iOmu1DaeSUUvEBXXMuQ= Received: by 10.78.132.2 with SMTP id f2mr25726215hud.19.1206451174390; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.230.74]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 32sm10723370hui.1.2008.03.25.06.19.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:19:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:18:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200803242343.33944.neodarklight@gmail.com> <200803251117.17345.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803251518.30543.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 569b861a-cfb7-4639-9c8d-821f841ffcbd X-Archives-Hash: e2444df523c0a6870fea9b92143bb942 On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Galevsky wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > Video cards is the big sticking point > > For sure. But I guess that he wants to satellite his GC with the last > Windows games, so I would recommend a 8800. And his NVIDIA wont hurt > for a common desktop usage. > > As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between > nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later. I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't done head to head comparisons on nvidia for ages. Last I heard, nv was still way behind in terms of features supported, but that can change quite quickly. Anyone else got current info on this? It's a question I'm sure many folk would like an answer on -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list