Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question

Stefan Patric <tootek2@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
You should get the dedicated ATI driver.

I assume you mean ATI's proprietary driver "fglrx".

It will improve graphic
performance tremendously. My 64-bit AMD system uses a Geforce 6600 PCI-X
card and with the Fedora Core 6 generic 'nv' driver, I only get between
100 and 150 fps on glxgears, full screen.

Depending on your screen resolution, that's not bad. However, it's
customary to report glxgears numbers for the default size, and they
are more comparable then.

Anyway, the nv driver does not support hardware 3D accelaration,
thanks to Nvidia not providing the necessary programming information.
In contrast, the radeon driver the OP is using does support hardware
3D acceleration on all Radeons up to the R400 series (i.e., anything
below Radeon x1000), thanks to ATI providing the programming
infomation for the R100 and R200 series; the OP has an R200-based
card, so he should get 3D acceleration, but apparently doesn't.

With the 'nvidia' driver from
livna, I'll expect 8 to 10 times faster frame rates.

Yes, hardware acceleration will do that for you. But the speed
difference between radeon and fglrx is much less: From
<2005Jan13.200644@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Driver fps
fglrx (proprietary): 1572 fps
radeon Xfree86-4.3: 1448 fps
radeon X.org-6.8.1: 1526 fps

I'm not up on Intel boards. In fact, I avoid them. Have read a lot about
incompatibility issues with them and Linux -- mainly Intel chipsets,
onboard graphics and ethernet chips -- especially since the Microsoft and
Intel collaboration to develop hardware that's "Vista Ready." I'm sure
this will change after the Linux community has time to write drivers,
etc.

You don't know what you are talking about. Intel has very good Linux
support, including supplying programming information and free drivers
for the graphics chips (they are pretty much the only game in town in
that respect) and better Linux support for their wireless chips than
most other manufacturers. Their Ethernet chips give very good
performance under Linux and have been very reliable in my experience.

I don't have experience with Intel boards, but they have a good
reputation.

- anton
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