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.
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