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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
