On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 09:20 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 07:02 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > >While we're at it, does anyone have recommendations for good graphics > >cards? Pointers to good review sites? All very good questions... > How are you planning on using them? Very straight ahead: Web browsing, some video, office suite, text applications, very little gaming, minimal 3D support. > Are you willing to use proprietary drivers? Yes. I currently use the proprietary nvidia drivers. > Intel on die video devices seem to have the best drivers right now. They > aren't as powerful as what you get with discrete cards, but depending > on what you need they might be good enough. Nice to know, but I'm looking for a (discrete) video card to upgrade my desktop. My current card is a GeForce 8400GS, with which I replaced GeForce 9500GT when its fan burned out. As I remember it, the GeForce 9500GT had less trouble with Firefox, but there have been many changes to other software. > Radeon support has gotten better, but I think it is still a good idea > to avoid the last generation or two. > > Nouveau currently has some significant limitations with regarding to reclocking > with recent nVidia cards. If you want one of those, you probably are going to > want to use the proprietary driver. If you get a somewhat older card, the > Nouveau driver should be OK. How old is old? Where is a list of cards that work well with the Nouveau drivers? > Neither Radeon nor Nouveau have the level of OpenGL support that the Intel > drivers do. I assume you mean Intel **open source** drivers. No? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
