Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: > nVidia at the moment is a bit of a risk, as there is a whole raft of > issues going on with nVidia hardware. If their drivers work, they will > likely give better performance and features than AMDs options, and so > long as the hardware holds

Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
5850 or 5870. You have a hard time to get anything besides a 250 from Nvidia (and Charlie predicted and explained that ...). And a 250 is just a twice rebranded 8800

Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Bridge
nVidia at the moment is a bit of a risk, as there is a whole raft of issues going on with nVidia hardware. If their drivers work, they will likely give better performance and features than AMDs options, and so long as the hardware holds up. Read up on nVidia bumps issue for more information. Howev