On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 22:31:22 +0000, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Suppose I am a newbie for computers, and I decided to buy the latest&greatest > in available hardware (btw, this can make sense if you don't want your machine > to be obsolete by tomorrow). So when I get to choose a graphics card for my > new shiny desktop machine, which of the two do you recommend to work better in > Fedora? > > (1) ATI Radeon HD 5970, or > (2) nVidia Quadro FX 5800 (3) Don't buy either if you are planning on using 3d graphics in Fedora right now. (4) Buy a second inexpensive card for use in Fedora. Or reuse one of the many cards you have sitting around after replacing your video card every year. > You are basically listing hardware that is either inferior in performance or > is going to become obsolete in a year. Obsolete? Not for Fedora. Maybe for playing the latest Windows based games or doing some sort of commercial rendering. > You are basically recommending that Fedora users buy inferior hardware, for And much cheaper hadrware. And possibly passively cooled hardware that is quieter. (The 9200 was a really card for its time. It was inexpensive and didn't need a separate fan.) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
