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Ice-9

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« on: 16 May 2002, 02:26 »
Ok, I've been reading these forums for a while now and thanks to a lot of you guys I did some research on Linux and decided to go for it (Win2K is what I'm using now).
I hesitated for a long time because I'm not sure I will be able to set up my rig correctly, I'm not a techie but generally speaking I know what I'm doing with pc's, and I figured that I could always ask for help if I have to ...  
Which brings me to my question, for the pc I'm building now (the one destined to have Suse as an OS) I have the choice between a Geforce3 and an Ati Radeon 8500.
So I'd like to know which one would be your primary choice and why, I know Nvidia has Linux support and I think Ati too but I can't decide on which one to use.
Could you please tell me your thoughts on the matter?

Thanks a lot.

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« Reply #1 on: 16 May 2002, 03:35 »
Speaking in terms of support under X in Linux you can try this http://www.xfree86.org to see if both are supported under XFree86 4.* or 3.3.6. As far as gaming in Linux is concerned, I'm afraid I'm not an expert, sorry   ;)  
[edit: i fixed your link]

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« Reply #2 on: 16 May 2002, 14:21 »
either one is good ..... geforce 3 is a bit faster I believe, radeon has a bit better image quality.

If you're really a GPL/open source zealot you would go for ATI because their driver is open source and the NVIDIA driver isn't
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« Reply #3 on: 16 May 2002, 23:43 »
:D    :D    :D    :D  

good one.
why dontcha go to this site:
http://linux20368.dn.net/protools/fun.htm
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« Reply #4 on: 16 May 2002, 23:45 »
here are a few samplez:





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« Reply #5 on: 17 May 2002, 00:17 »
i'm such an asshole, that i e-mail M
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« Reply #6 on: 17 May 2002, 02:56 »
Thanks for the replies, but I've gone through the forums @ linuxquestions and there are just a little too many users who have serious trouble with the newer Ati boards.
As I intend to be able to play Q3 under Linux as well I really wanna be sure that I have proper 3D support so I think I'll go for the Geforce3.
Thanks anyways.

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« Reply #7 on: 17 May 2002, 03:15 »
I can only speak for the Geforce II. It works great with Linux.
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