Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question

Mark Adams <mark9117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Show of hands -- who thinks I should really just upgrade? <raises hand>

No, doing an upgrade would be an attempt to fix a software
misconfiguration with a hardware replacement. You should be able to get
much more performance out of your current hardware. Newer hardware will
also most likely be harder to configure than old and well known hardware.

There could be other reasons to do a hardware upgrade. Those reasons could
include things like "having too much money" or "like to live on the
bleeding edge". However "having difficulties to configure software for my
well supported hardware" is not a reason to upgrade to bleeding edge
hardware.

As you have problems with Mandriva but things work better with Ubuntu you
might want to consider switching Linux distribution instead. That would be
a lot cheaper solution than trying to replace hardware. Still your 698 fps
in Ubuntu sounds like software rendering only.

With a Radeon 9200 (which is only slighter faster than your card) on a P4
2.6 GHz I have been able to get 2918 fps with X.org 6.8. You should be
able to expect above 2600 fps with hardware accelerated OpenGL with your
current hardware configuration.

regards Henrik
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