On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Galevsky wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alan McKinnon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > > 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
