On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:39:31PM +0100, Michael TD Nelson wrote: > I have been hoping to find something fanless on eBay UK. I was mainly > hoping to get some reassurance that drivers are ok on modern(ish) ATI > and nVidia cards. I'll keep looking, and wait until a bargain comes along. I wouldn't call the opensource drivers OKish for Nvidia. I think your best best for a PCI-E card is somewhere from a ATI x300 to ATI x850. Stay away from X1000 or newer. > On a slightly different note - are there any cards which have good 3d > performance with open drivers? I probably won't use it yet, but it would > be nice to know about... The ATI X300 to X850 range are reasonably decent using the open source ATI drivers. That range of cards is probably the best graphics for a completely open source linux machine. I would say that they are easily faster than the Intel 965 graphics at this time. Long term, the Intel graphics may end up being a better choice, but for now I think that the slightly older ATI is best. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
