New Graphiccard nvidia or ati?

[Daniel Hyde]

If I understand you correctly, you're saying you would get an nvidia
card for the freebsd support, but since there's no 3d support on amd64
yet, you're thinking of going with the ati instead?

If nvidia's track record is anything to go by (ie, native freebsd
drivers for 3d), I'd stick with the nvidia card. Even if they don't
have a native 3d driver available for amd64 yet, there's a much
greater chance they'll have one sooner or later.  Compare ati who, as
far as I am aware, have never released a freebsd-native 3d driver.


On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:47:21 +0100, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm (still) planning to buy a new computer system soon. I'm still shure
> it will be an AMD64 system with PCI/Express onboard. I think I'll try to
> get my hands on a board with VIA KT890 instead of nforce4 because from
> what I heard, via is better supported from FreeBSD. The thing with gfx is
> now... I've no idea what to buy. All I need is
>         - PCIe
>         - 2 monitor support
>         - non-fan cooling (passiv cooling)
> 
> it looks like, both nvidia and ati don't have a 3d driver which will work
> on amd64 right? As far as I can see there are two choices left:
> 
>         - Gigabyte GeForce 6600, 128MB DDR, DVI, TV-out, PCIe (GV-
>           NX66128DP)
> 
>         - Sapphire Radeon X300 Lite
> 
>  both cards provide a 2nd monitor option so I can use xinerama (or am I
> worng?) and are cooled w/o a fan. I guess(!) that the ATI case produces
> less heat which makes me tend to that one.
> Any suggestions what to buy?
> 
> --
>  Oliver Lehmann
>   http://www.pofo.de/
>   http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
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