On 10/28/13 11:44, Brett Mahar wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:20:32 +0100 > "Peter J. Philipp" <p...@centroid.eu> wrote: > > | I remember someone else writing to this list before saying the nvidia > | driver is really slow. I just upgraded my main workstation from 5.3 to > | 5.4 and it indeed is. > | > | So I'm wondering what driver I should use because the choppyness of > | moving windows is laughable, a sad kind of laugh. > | > | Do you recommend I get an ATI/AMD card? What sorts of models would you > | recommend? > | > > The "ATI Radeon HD 5450" works great with the recently added radeon KMS code, > I got one for A$30 a few weeks ago, no problems seen, definitely no > chopppyness using mplayer -vo xv in fullscreen 1080p, did have problems with > a 96fps 4096x2304 video I tried out, however:-) > > Brett. >
Hi Brett, Well I took your advice and bought this card. I'm not a high performance freak when it comes to monitor so I think it'll be alright. I paid 27 euros on amazon.de for it. It does match my MSI N250GTS Twin Frozr 1G in DDR3 1 GB RAM but not sure about performance, I'll have to see. :-) Cheers, -peter
