On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Galevsky wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alan McKinnon
> <alan.mckinnon@(protected)>
>
> > Video cards is the big sticking point
>
> For sure. But I guess that he wants to satellite his GC with the last
> Windows games, so I would recommend a 8800. And his NVIDIA wont hurt
> for a common desktop usage.
>
> As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between
> nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later.

I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't done head to head
comparisons on nvidia for ages. Last I heard, nv was still way behind
in terms of features supported, but that can change quite quickly.

Anyone else got current info on this? It's a question I'm sure many folk
would like an answer on



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