Re: NVidia cards (was Re: I think I'm ready to give up on x86_64)

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 Mark J. Dulcey wrote: 

  > Pretty much any 7000-series NVidia card should be well supported by any 
> reasonably recent Linux distribution, in 2D out of the box and in 
> accelerated 3D with the proprietary NVidia driver installed. Cards with 
> as much as 512MB of RAM are readily available and not even horribly 
> expensive. Choose according to price and performance preference. 
> 
> 8000-series cards are more problematic with Linux, because they are new 
> and the drivers aren't mature yet; that's the problem you had with your 
> 8600. (They can be convinced to work, but not out of the box.) 
> Furthermore, 8000-series cards other than the 8800 don't have any 
> compelling advantage for Linux use right now; they're not really any 
> faster than the corresponding 7000-series cards, and Linux can't use the 
> additional features (DirectX 10 support and hardware HD video decoding) 
> yet. The 8800 has a bit more appeal, because it's faster than any 
> 7000-series card; a single 8800GTX is about equal to an SLI pair of 7900s.