From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SJPNI-0002W3-B0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:20:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26FF5E0978; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:19:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com (ironport-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.143.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA27EE0978 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:18:29 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApUIACxOgk9FpaDo/2dsb2JhbABDuCMDgQyBCIIKAQU6HDMLNBIUJTeIDrYyi2GBVYJBYwSNb4d8hgKIWIFdgwM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="174362707" Received: from 69-165-160-232.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.160.232]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 15 Apr 2012 09:18:28 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:18:15 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:18:15 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PCI video cards, hardware accel, upported by open-source drivers? Message-ID: <20120415131815.GA21028@waltdnes.org> References: <20120410112621.GA10304@waltdnes.org> <271B3943-DE38-4A2B-B056-0A1BD1712956@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20120411061135.GA11539@waltdnes.org> <3590552.QJNIKWnFeQ@energy> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3590552.QJNIKWnFeQ@energy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: b4db10ab-0812-4a97-82fc-680e6e4cc5b1 X-Archives-Hash: 73146d99f77c398e1e62b8020f2b2906 On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:30:02PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2012, 02:11:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: > > > > If it's PCIe, so be it. Actually, a post that prevents me wasting > > money is helpful . Would PCIe be significantly better on the same > > CPU+GPU, or is it hype? > > a lot, lot lot lot better. No hype. I've done some looking, and I'm back with more questions. I've also read the Nouveau-versus-NVIDIA thread. Questions... 1) Will PCIe 2.0 cards work in a PCIe 1.0 slot? I'm not expecting 2.0 performance, I just want full backwards compatability. PCIe 1.0 cards seem to be rare, and have to be ordered online, while I can pick up a 2.0 card locally at a store. 2) My main "torture test" will be HD fullscreen video. Will there be major improvement in that? That's 2D. Forget 3D. 3) The 2 lowest-priced Nvidia's at the local store are... Asus EN210 SILENT/DI/512MD3/V2(LP) NVIDIA GeForce 210 Chipset (589Mhz) 512MB (1333Mhz) GDDR3 DVI/VGA/HDMI PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card and EVGA GeForce 8400GS 1GB (01G-P3-1302-LR) nVidia GeForce 8400GS Chipset (520Mhz) 1GB (520Mhz) DDR3 Dual Display DVI/HDMI/VGA PCI Express 2.0 Graphics Card Any preferences? -- Walter Dnes