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New NVidia Graphics Cards Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pretty-pictures dept.

UnixRevolution writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of Nvidia's new FX5950 and FX5700. According to Tom's Hardware, ATI's Radeon 9800XT is still at the top of the heap." They're still some pretty slick cards, if only for their heat sink designs.

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  1. I've got a GeForce4 Ti4300 by Sheetrock · · Score: 0, Troll
    To be honest, I haven't noticed that much difference between this and the level of processing ability of my old Voodoo3 (compatibility being the biggest issue.) It seems to work well even with demanding titles like BattleField 1945, where memory, CPU, and disk speed seem to be the biggest bottlenecks. I've even heard that the cards can't possibly get much more efficient at this point because they're already tapping out AGP 8X.

    So I suppose my question is why do people get more excited these days about +0.7fps out of a $200 card when they could just drop a bit more memory on the mainboard? Reviewers and fanboys still gush about these things when there are so many better improvements to be made in other areas.

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  2. Re:DO NOT SUPPORT NVIDIA by Attitude+Adjuster · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yawn...

    1. ATI doesn't provide OSS drivers either.
    2. OSS drivers would be nice from a philosophical point of view, but the fact that you get Linux drivers at all from NVIDIA is a damn good thing. They do care that Linux users use their products. There are infinitely many products out there that aren't OSS, and manufacturers/software companies and whatever that don't give a shit about even supporting Linux, so lets not push away people who are guardedly friendly towards us....
    2. The NVIDIA drivers for Linux are pretty damn good, and more importantly are ultra stable in my experience both for home and professional use (much more so than ATIs offerings).
    3. ATI will be making XBOX2's graphics cards...

  3. Re:Tell me, are they even relevant? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey nerd. I 'm a nerd too. My PeeCee, as it were, is a basically a $2000 playstation. I love the idea of gpl/lgpl(Whatever lgpl is, but I know what gpl is) drivers are. Until something like 50% of ALL currently released games are compatible with gpl/lgpl os's, I really don't care.

    I like the idea of open source software, and recognize its strengths, but it has a mass of weaknesses. Specifically the games. Yeah. Tux Racer. Stick that up your butt.Tux Racer is worth maybe 5 hours of fun at best.

    Like it or not, gaming has driven the computer industry to where it is. I could care less who makes apps like office or open office. Show me a game that wil convince people to change os's and I'll show you the future of computing.

    Or I suppose the general public could write their own drivers. Except the general public wants to just load drivers and have them work. This is kind of like 95% of people hating their cars and having techies say:" If you don't like your car, make your own!" It just won't happen.

    Linux junkies need to remember that most people can't write their own drivers or contribute to an OS build. And with that attitude, Linux will never become a mainstream home user os.