ATI or NVIDIA ?

From: Rudolf Usselmann (russelmann_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/19/05 

Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:57:09 +0700

Howdy All !

so I am building a new system and am trying to decide which
Video Card to get. It seems both ATI and NVIDAI have very
similar High-End cards: PCI-Express, Dual DVI, 256MB DDR2, etc.

In the past I used NVIDIA, because there just was no alternative.
Their driver support for linux is just so-so ...

But I have not used ATI, since I had an ATI card in a Notebook
half a decade ago.

What is the general opinion of this group, which one provides
better drivers and support ? Most important issues is obviously
drivers for ANY kind of linux and home build kernels ...
I am planning to use a single desktop across two high res LCDs
each 1600x1200 ...

Any suggestions & recommendations welcomed !

Thanks,
rudi
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