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Old 12-19-2010, 08:22 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow View Post
afaik you have still the best chances with nvidia and their own (nonfree) drivers.


P.S.: never used highend GPUs either IMHO t was always been only for fishing out the last buck from the gamerkids' pockets.
I'll look into the NVIDIA drivers soon. When I did my test I used whatever Ubuntu installed, figuring that that would be the best.


" never used highend GPUs"

I stopped playing most games a long time ago. Unfortunately I keep reading that any gaming card will give fast 2D results. So far I haven't seen that on cards that cost less than $200. If someone has a real solid recommendation I might go as high as $130 for a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. But it has to handle dual monitors.


I keep seeing "(nonfree) drivers". Is there something undesirable about them, or is it just an ideological thing?


I just spent half an hour looking online & it looks like there's no consensus on a good card. What one likes, the other says has problems.
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