which Nvidia card?

[Barney_DK]

Since my long, drawn out, and painful ATI experiences have finally got the better of me, I've decided to finally go over to an Nvidia card, instead of persevering much further with getting 3D acceleration working (but big thanks to Icarus for trying hard to help get the card working in suse 9.2).

So, my question is. I currently have a Radeon 9600XT (128MB) card. Can anyone recommend a good Nvidia card which will be capable of handling Unreal 2004, doom 3, and give me a nice looking resolution in KDE for all my desktop needs.

This must be the way forward.. Ask first before wasting money on an unsupported card!!

My current setup is
Suse 9.2 (2.6 kernel)
3.2 Ghz processor
1GB ram
Samsung 172X monitor.

Many thanks in advance.

[phil_r]

I've got a GeForce 3 TI 400 which handles all that very nicely, it's an "old" card (about 2-3 years) so you'd get one on ebay for a few dollars.

Basically, get the best you can afford - Nvidia are "one driver fits all" and the driver works very very well.

Head over to www.nforcers.net , go into the Linux forum and ask in there, those guys are really good and have tons of experience with Nvidia cards - and the Nvidia teams check those forums occasionally too for the usability reports we all like to tell each other about :-)

Phil.

[hard candy]

You want the $600 overclocked 6800 with 256 RAM and PCI Express interface. Then you will be future proof for 6 months. And glxgears will run about 10,000. :D

[Barney_DK]

Yep..

I'll also be living in a cardboard box due to the missing mortgage payments!!

:eek:


But thanks.
Will take a look at some cards this week. I was very pleasantly surprised when I just saw the Suse howto for Nvidia cards, which just says "use YAST".. Better than the 5 page guide for ATI!!

[je_fro]

For $400 you can get the 6800 or (even better) 6800GT...

je_fro@speedy je_fro $ glxgears
54482 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10896.400 FPS
56642 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11328.400 FPS
58445 frames in 5.0 seconds = 11689.000 FPS

It handles Doom3 at 1600 and High Quality just fine...

[Barney_DK]

Ouch...

I just looked at some of the benchmarks for the 6800GT and that's got to be done!

I see a postage parcel being hidden from the girlfriend in the next few days!! ha..

Thanks for the advice guys..

[tucolino]

got the fx5200 here and its weak (well, cheap as well)! watch out for it.

[DruManiac]

Originally posted by Barney_DK
Since my long, drawn out, and painful ATI experiences have finally got the better of me, I've decided to finally go over to an Nvidia card, instead of persevering much further with getting 3D acceleration working (but big thanks to Icarus for trying hard to help get the card working in suse 9.2).

So, my question is. I currently have a Radeon 9600XT (128MB) card. Can anyone recommend a good Nvidia card which will be capable of handling Unreal 2004, doom 3, and give me a nice looking resolution in KDE for all my desktop needs.

This must be the way forward.. Ask first before wasting money on an unsupported card!!

My current setup is
Suse 9.2 (2.6 kernel)
3.2 Ghz processor
1GB ram
Samsung 172X monitor.

Many thanks in advance.

im getting an asus gforce 6600 td 256mb pciexpress, its 130$... i guess thats really a good choice

[razzaaaa]

Could save a few bucks and not go for the PCIexpress models, they won't make any difference until there are applications that require more bandwidth than the 8Xagp can support.