From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gl5Pd-0007L8-W6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:13:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAHFAXpL017161; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:10:33 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAHF76rt027745 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:07:07 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCCC16435F for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:07:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.556 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.556 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.043, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZQ84N7XL8cOI for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:06:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A40642F3 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gl43Y-0002PG-V5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:47:01 +0100 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:47:00 +0100 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:47:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 7800 GTX: opensource driver stable? Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7573e9640611161304o411169afx7c44f3596a0d8d62@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060910) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b6cafa6e-2fe4-41fa-bb42-c2299988a9ab X-Archives-Hash: 3421fcbfe0219be9ae5d45cc22bfb697 Richard Fish 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list