Dear Phoronix Forum Members,
I'm trying to plan a new desktop based on the core i5-2500k. It's mostly for browsing, work (mathematica, inkscape, etc), some virtualization, watching tv/movies and a little bit of gaming (basically only urbanteror). I will probably run Ubuntu or Debian.
I've been reading a lot and I've narrowed down most of the hardware but I'm having a lot of trouble picking a graphics card. I have a Vaio laptop now with a nvidia 9300m gs and I've had trouble with tearing and I defiantly want to get rid of the tearing issue. I'd also like to keep the gfx card around 50-75$ if possible.
I've been pouring over openbenchmark's urban terror stats (looking to get 100+ fps at 1920x1200). It seems there are a few cards that do this.
The old X1800XT on the gallium 3d (is this going to be trick to get working?)
The Radeon 4650/4830 with the catalyst blob drivers
and some nvidia cards like the gt 220 seem possible too.
I was hoping for any suggestions, are the problems with the ATI drivers for linux as bad as I've read, it seems from phoronix and this community that they are getting much much better of late. Any help choosing would be greatly appreciated!
I know this is the AMD/ATI section but if the GT220 would work better please let me know!
Thanks very much,
Lyle
TLDR: please help me choose gfx card for HD movies/urbanterror ~$60!
I'm trying to plan a new desktop based on the core i5-2500k. It's mostly for browsing, work (mathematica, inkscape, etc), some virtualization, watching tv/movies and a little bit of gaming (basically only urbanteror). I will probably run Ubuntu or Debian.
I've been reading a lot and I've narrowed down most of the hardware but I'm having a lot of trouble picking a graphics card. I have a Vaio laptop now with a nvidia 9300m gs and I've had trouble with tearing and I defiantly want to get rid of the tearing issue. I'd also like to keep the gfx card around 50-75$ if possible.
I've been pouring over openbenchmark's urban terror stats (looking to get 100+ fps at 1920x1200). It seems there are a few cards that do this.
The old X1800XT on the gallium 3d (is this going to be trick to get working?)
The Radeon 4650/4830 with the catalyst blob drivers
and some nvidia cards like the gt 220 seem possible too.
I was hoping for any suggestions, are the problems with the ATI drivers for linux as bad as I've read, it seems from phoronix and this community that they are getting much much better of late. Any help choosing would be greatly appreciated!
I know this is the AMD/ATI section but if the GT220 would work better please let me know!
Thanks very much,
Lyle
TLDR: please help me choose gfx card for HD movies/urbanterror ~$60!
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