[gentoo-user] Re: 7800 GTX: opensource driver stable?

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Richard Fish <bigfish <at> asmallpond.org> writes:


> > I'm not looking for the latest video card, just one with good performance
> > and open source drivers.

> You won't get hardware 3D with nvidia and open source drivers.  So
> you'll either have to accept the proprietary drivers (which are pretty
> good IMO) if you want hardware 3D, or prefer an ATI card supported by
> the radeon driver.  But I have no current experience with ATI, so
> others will have to comment about that side of the world.

Hello Richard,

Yea, I guess that's why I suggested the nvidia. NObody seems to want to
state how well/poor opensource ATI drivers code is working. When I read,
what I can find from googling, it's either dated or confusing.
I'd go with an ATI card and opensource drivers, if somebody would 
indicate a card that gives reasonble performance, for less than $200.00 usd.

I leaning towards the nvidia 7800 based card. Good performance, reasonable
price.  Here is the best reference I found  on building a cost effective
 gaming system:

 http://compreviews.about.com/od/tutorials/a/DIYBudgetGamePC.htm

My other concerns are how well is the mobo supported under linux?  Since gaming
systems run hot, cooling and lm_sensors support seems critical in putting
together a gaming system. I not whether I should used a 'water cooler' or if
force air cooling is sufficient. If I used a water cooler, should it also cool
the gpu on the graphics card?  I do not intend to 'overclock' the graphics card
at this time. If I cannot determine that this mobo (MSI K9N SLI Platinum) is
linux (lm_sensors) friendly, then maybe somebody can/will recommend another
mobo that support's SLI and amd64 processors and is not too expensive?



James

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