I have an AGP ATI X1650Pro that used to be DOG SLOW running Compiz. Scrolling, moving windows, it was all atrocious.
I recently tried out Ubuntu 8.04 which uses much newer ATI drivers (8-03 I believe) and it runs flawlessly. It's so fast and responsive, I'm booting into Vista less and less.
I also have a similar question. I'm going to be going PCI-E soon and getting either a Radeon HD3870 or a Geforce 8800GT. The price is basically the same and the performance is within a few % of each other.
Tough decision. The drivers I'm using now work great, but I hear the NVIDIA ones are even better. But ATI seems very serious about getting open-source support in there, and their proprietary driver keeps getting better, so - ehhhh - just not sure which to do.
I recently tried out Ubuntu 8.04 which uses much newer ATI drivers (8-03 I believe) and it runs flawlessly. It's so fast and responsive, I'm booting into Vista less and less.
I also have a similar question. I'm going to be going PCI-E soon and getting either a Radeon HD3870 or a Geforce 8800GT. The price is basically the same and the performance is within a few % of each other.
Tough decision. The drivers I'm using now work great, but I hear the NVIDIA ones are even better. But ATI seems very serious about getting open-source support in there, and their proprietary driver keeps getting better, so - ehhhh - just not sure which to do.
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