Because of this and this, I have desided to switch from Nvidia Geforce 9800 gt green to AMD Radeon HD4770 and support AMD from now on.
Nvidia is closing the last opensource driver they maintained and their main driver in essence is windows driver, remapped to posix; whilst AMD has improved native opensource linux stack, now with OpenGL acceleration.
I do NOT feel like supporting Nvidia "efforts" anymore!
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HD4770 is my best option, because its R700, which already has 3D accel, unlike tba R800; and it is the only chip in 40nm fab in whole HD4xxx series, which means its efficient. The problem - it is HARD to find.
Because I need upgrade anyway, I desided to go straight and purchase amd cpu and motherboard as well. Intel, while also supporting opensource, did not provide enough GPU power for ocassional gaming and for exact same amount of money, I prefer 4 real cores instead of 2 real 2 HT'ed(i3-540).
Check it out and you are free to change as well, to show you care for opensource AMD on GNU/Linux.
s775 Dual Core E5300--> sAM3 Athlon II X3 630
Asrock P43ME ---> Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
Gainward 9800GT Green--->Powercolor HD4770 + AC Accelero L2
4 gb of ddr2 ram converted to ddr3...
Initially targeted XFX HD4770 for blow-out airpipe, I was unable to find it in my region. So here comes Powercolor card with aftermarket cooling. This knife was the only "screwdriver" which passed to original screws on the powercolor card. Nobody was hurt in the process.
Attaching stuff:
Home rig, running gentoo64:
Before, notice Gf9800gt in the slot:
Nvidia is closing the last opensource driver they maintained and their main driver in essence is windows driver, remapped to posix; whilst AMD has improved native opensource linux stack, now with OpenGL acceleration.
I do NOT feel like supporting Nvidia "efforts" anymore!
------
HD4770 is my best option, because its R700, which already has 3D accel, unlike tba R800; and it is the only chip in 40nm fab in whole HD4xxx series, which means its efficient. The problem - it is HARD to find.
Because I need upgrade anyway, I desided to go straight and purchase amd cpu and motherboard as well. Intel, while also supporting opensource, did not provide enough GPU power for ocassional gaming and for exact same amount of money, I prefer 4 real cores instead of 2 real 2 HT'ed(i3-540).
Check it out and you are free to change as well, to show you care for opensource AMD on GNU/Linux.
s775 Dual Core E5300--> sAM3 Athlon II X3 630
Asrock P43ME ---> Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
Gainward 9800GT Green--->Powercolor HD4770 + AC Accelero L2
4 gb of ddr2 ram converted to ddr3...
Initially targeted XFX HD4770 for blow-out airpipe, I was unable to find it in my region. So here comes Powercolor card with aftermarket cooling. This knife was the only "screwdriver" which passed to original screws on the powercolor card. Nobody was hurt in the process.
Attaching stuff:
Home rig, running gentoo64:
Before, notice Gf9800gt in the slot:
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