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Subject: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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Hi,
I know this question is vague but I'm not a gamer so excuse my
ignorance and thanks in advance.
I'm building a machine that is somewhat over the top for power - i7
980x 6 core, hyperthreaded for 12 processing threads, lots of cache,
24GB DRAM, 1TB RAID0 and 500GB RAID1. The main job for this machine is
to run maybe 5 copies of Windows 7 ( 10 threads ) doing number
crunching and Gentoo-AMD64 as the host. (If I ever find Open Source to
do what I'm using Windows for but that's for another thread in the
future.)
Anyway, the machine is coming together and I need to get a graphics
adaper. I don't plan on doing much gaming, at least right now, but if
I wanted to get __moderately__ high-end graphics performance under
Linux what would I buy? Generally I prefer Open Source drivers but I'm
not political about it and historically have had better results with
NVidia than ATI but I own both and both work.
I don't want to go over the top price-wise as it's not the purpose
of this machine at all, but I might as well have a little fun once in
awhile if possible. Assume maybe $200 for the card unless there's
something to really be gained going up a bit more.
Cheers,
Mark