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New video disappointment
Just went out a bought a Pny Geforce 6800GT to replace my trusty 9700pro and
I must say it is quite a letdown. Either the 9700P was wayyy ahead of its time or Nvidia hasnt got their **** together yet. The ONLY reason I went Nvidia is because of Linux support. Mitch -- Remove "nospam." to reply. SuSE 9.2 Pro KDE3.3.2a. YaSTastic! |
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Mitch_A wrote: > Just went out a bought a Pny Geforce 6800GT to replace my trusty 9700pro and > I must say it is quite a letdown. Either the 9700P was wayyy ahead of its > time or Nvidia hasnt got their **** together yet. > > The ONLY reason I went Nvidia is because of Linux support. > > Mitch > -- > Remove "nospam." to reply. > SuSE 9.2 Pro KDE3.3.2a. > YaSTastic! Thanks for the info - I was thinking about a X800Pro vs 6800GT. Guess it's an X800Pro then (when the prices drop). Kendt |
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> Just went out a bought a Pny Geforce 6800GT to replace my trusty 9700pro
> and > I must say it is quite a letdown. Either the 9700P was wayyy ahead of its > time or Nvidia hasnt got their **** together yet. > > The ONLY reason I went Nvidia is because of Linux support. > You sure it's not something else in your system holding it back ? Personally, I went for the X800 Pro, but the 6800GT is ,supposedly, very quick. |
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redTed wrote:
>> Just went out a bought a Pny Geforce 6800GT to replace my trusty 9700pro >> and >> I must say it is quite a letdown. Either the 9700P was wayyy ahead of >> its time or Nvidia hasnt got their **** together yet. >> >> The ONLY reason I went Nvidia is because of Linux support. >> > > You sure it's not something else in your system holding it back ? > Personally, I went for the X800 Pro, but the 6800GT is ,supposedly, very > quick. Yea Ted I had all intentions of going the X800Pro route but for a couple minor reasons. First was Linux compatibility and I do like the idea of the shader 3.0 support and the benchmarks between the two come in very close. Im gonna do a fresh OS install later today to verify. Mitch -- Remove "nospam." to reply. SuSE 9.2 Pro KDE3.3.2a. YaSTastic! |
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:15:41 GMT, Mitch_A wrote:
> The ONLY reason I went Nvidia is because of Linux support. doesn't ATI provide drivers for Linux, too? Cheers, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61 |
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So THAT's why you have been giving us the cold-shoulder lately
-Larry "Mitch_A" > wrote in message m... > Just went out a bought a Pny Geforce 6800GT to replace my trusty 9700pro > and > I must say it is quite a letdown. Either the 9700P was wayyy ahead of its > time or Nvidia hasnt got their **** together yet. > > The ONLY reason I went Nvidia is because of Linux support. > > Mitch > -- > Remove "nospam." to reply. > SuSE 9.2 Pro KDE3.3.2a. > YaSTastic! |
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> doesn't ATI provide drivers for Linux, too?
> > Cheers, uwe Yep, but those who have tried them will tell you to avoid ATI if you use Linux. -- Mika Takala |
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Uwe Schürkamp wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:15:41 GMT, Mitch_A wrote: >> The ONLY reason I went Nvidia is because of Linux support. > > doesn't ATI provide drivers for Linux, too? > > Cheers, uwe > > > Not for Xorg 6.8 just 6.7. Soon though from what I hear. I may take this Nvidia back for an X800 if that happens soon. -- Remove "nospam." to reply. SuSE 9.2 Pro KDE3.3.2a. YaSTastic! |
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> So THAT's why you have been giving us the cold-shoulder lately
There's nothing wrong with the 6800GT. It's *twice* the speed of my old 9700pro. No, nvidia can't do fsaa/aa to save their lives, but so what, I'd rather run 1600x1200 anyway. At $350 5months ago it is and was the best perf/perf high-end card on the market. ATI completely botched the release of the X800XT in all departments, from performance to price to availability. It is only just now that ATI is releasing a card, the X800XL, that matches the 6800GT, AND IT IS PCI-E ONLY AND IS NOT YET AVAILABLE. The upshot is that MitchA is just as screwed up in his videocard opinions as he is in supporting the Asshole-In-Chief. rms |
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