Best hardware for a replacement desktop?

[RW]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:31:21 -0400
Aryeh Friedman wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:19 PM RW via freebsd-questions <
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:

> > My understanding is that you only need to load nvidia-modeset.ko in
> > loader.conf, and nvidia.ko will get loaded as a side effect. Are you
> > saying that's wrong?
> >  
> 
> Yes:
> 
> nvidia-modeset_load="YES"
> 
> Will *NOT* load it correctly (it will not find the card in the device
> probe) *BUT*:
> 
> nvidia_load="YES"
> nvidia-modeset_load="YES"
> 
> works fine (about twice as fast performance also). 

It does seem to use less cpu time. What's strange is that mplayer
claims it's using vdpau either way.