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Reply #16 Posted on: August 13, 2009, 04:22:25 pm |
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There's no correct driver
What card? There's always a correct driver.
He told me on MSN it was some GeForce
NVIDIA sucks
Ah. Yeah, for Linux, go AMD. It has an official open driver with full support and open documentation. Have you tried the Nouveau driver, Josh?
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Reply #17 Posted on: August 13, 2009, 04:51:32 pm |
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Tried it? I had to blacklist it. Which fixed nothing. Prime.
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Reply #18 Posted on: August 13, 2009, 08:01:48 pm |
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Master of all things Linux
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Ah. Yeah, for Linux, go AMD. It has an official open driver with full support and open documentation.
And also the fact that the hardware is the same or better for 1/5 the price. Seriously, both AMD and Intel's best processors are 64-bit, quad core, 3.2GHz, except Intel's is $1200 and AMD's is $200. And the AMD one is better and more efficient. :/
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Reply #19 Posted on: August 14, 2009, 04:52:00 am |
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Ah. Yeah, for Linux, go AMD. It has an official open driver with full support and open documentation.
And also the fact that the hardware is the same or better for 1/5 the price.
Seriously, both AMD and Intel's best processors are 64-bit, quad core, 3.2GHz, except Intel's is $1200 and AMD's is $200. And the AMD one is better and more efficient. :/
I'm an AMD fan, so I'd love if that were true, but CPU performance is not really related to the clockspeed. AMD's 3.4GHz Phenom II (they increased it by 200MHz yesterday) performs similarly to Intel's 2.66GHz Core i7 or 3.0GHz Core 2 Quad. This problem was reversed a few years ago when a 2.4GHz Athlon 64 performed similarly to a 3.8GHz Pentium 4. AMD do tend to be better at the price point they're at in both CPU and graphics though. They're not ahead in either market in raw performance terms.
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Reply #26 Posted on: August 15, 2009, 06:04:55 pm |
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Master of all things Linux
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Pentium 4 isn't multi-core. If you compare processors with the same number of cores, it's a lot closer, although other factors do affect it.
Oh, P4 was Pentium 4. I thought it meant Phenom Quad. :/ And yeah, multiple cores is having multiple processors, and really, having a 3.4 GHz quad processor is like having a 13.2GHz processor (mostly).
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