On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:47 +0800, Claus Reheis wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 11:09 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 16:29:39 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina mihamina.rakotomandimby@etu.univ-orleans.fr wrote:
Hi, I am going ti buy a brand new computer, and would like to know if it is better either to have a nVidia or an ATI graphic card.
If you were think of getting a less expensive card, the ATI 9200 will work with free drivers. There is a project to have free drivers for later ATI cards, but you should go looking for the current status of that project to make sure it is far enough along for you before committing to using a ATI model.
If you want it easy going and you want 3D Support I would suggest you a NVIDIA model! I also had a good experience with cads from Intel...
one of the considerations that i hadn't thought about until recently is that all the recent nvidia cards have mpeg2 decoders built into them. i believe -- dont' know for sure -- ati cards don't have them. this means that if you get into atsc hdtv or movies, it can reduce the load on your system.
john