Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question

Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
Mark Adams <mark9117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I may have not been clear about this point -- I can run the 3D eyecandy, but it's too slow to be useful. Oh! but I can't get some of the choicer effects, like water.

Is hardware accelerated OpenGL enabled?

Yes.

glxinfo | grep direct

As is when I open a new Firefox window, the CPU load jumps to 100% and cruises there for several seconds while the window opens.

Check with top which processes(es) are using resources and what resources
they use.

It's mostly the "/etc/X11/X -b -deferglyphs" stuff (I've got a live xplanet desktop) in X and java machines (when torrents are active).


Swap isn't taking much of a hit at all. Gkrellm says it's 743M free of 996M.

So you are using 256 MB of swap. Is this a number that increases during
the starting of a new program like firefox? Swap is slow, RAM is fast. If
you had 256 MB more RAM your system would be faster.

Okay, but Mem is only used at about 50% (1011M with 503M free). If it's only using half my RAM now, would it still allocate only 50% and swap less if I increased the installed RAM?


Pumping Azureus full of downloads will bump that up to something more like 50%, but I've never seen it higher.

Then you are using almost 512 MB of swap.

Pretty much.

It's the OS fglrx driver. I think it may be the generic OS Radeon driver. It allows 3D direct rendering with AIGLX.

Do you mean the OS (OpenSource) radeon driver from X.org or do you mean
the binary fglrx driver from ATI?

I can't get AIGLX to work with the proprietary driver, so I run the OS.


regards Henrik

Thanks Henrick.

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