As others have said the prices are very bad for any of the better cards. I was looking at a card before for $150 that was decent, the prices I find for it now are 2x if you can even find it. You might be best off buying one that is good enough for now and then replacing it with another when the madness settles down. I have an nvidia geforce 730gt gddr5, it does not quite meet the specs (3 ports, one vga, one dvi and one hdmi) and will handle one 4k monitor and one 2500x(dvi) and another less resolution on vga. It is a $50-$70 card and is old enough and not really useful for gaming so not affected by the pricing mess too much. If you do look at this, there is a gddr3 and a gddr5, the gddr5 is a newer and better chipset. The gddr5 can do on-card encoding (nvenc but only at 1080), the gddr3 cannot do that and does not have as good of resolution support. I run the nvidia packaged driver from rpmfusion and the only issues I have had are a couple of times I have upgraded to a kernel and had minor (immediate) issues with the driver not being there. But it does appear to be stable when I am running the rpmfusion packaged driver. On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:04 AM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 10:28:40AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > Open source drivers are 100% going to be the most stable, lowest-hassle > > > option. > > > > Not remotely true in my experience. I always give the nouveau drivers a shot > > in every new fedora release and they always crash my system within a week > > (usually within a couple of hours). I switch to the nvidia drivers after that > > and never have another problem. > > I'm sorry, let me rephrase: cards for which there are open source drivers > supported by the manufacturer (AMD, Intel) are the best choice. With Nvidia, > Nouveau is always playing a catch-up guessing game. > > -- > Matthew Miller > <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
