no gfx

[Jonathan]

My video card just died. Probably going to get a 560, but they are a little more expensive than I really wanted them to be. I'm pretty sure ATI & Linux are still shit, but now I'm doing the due diligence at least.

[Jonathan]

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... tion_Guide

Hmm, some forum posts make it sound like in the past couple months ATI has finally achieved working. I wish someone would do benchmarks.

[Jonathan]

Damn, it'd be nice to get DisplayPort out.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product
I like the cooling solution on this one, but it is DVI/HDMI only.

[Jonathan]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=w ... 41ZMZLUVAg

Went with this one. I would have liked to go with a little more perf (ie the 560 above) but I'm pretty happy.

Also picked up a G500, cause why not?

Now, if the stupid thing will only get here before Friday night so I can move my Eve stuff out of Curse.

[quantus]

Are the 6870's better than 6950's? I was considering the latter, but didn't really look for any perf data to back up that decision. I know they're roughly the same price (within 10% or so). Oh, and I'm still waiting for a decent P67 mobo to be back in stock...

[Jonathan]

No, bigger number = better. In this case I picked a 6870 because none of the 6950s come with a quiet cooling solution.

If you are willing to spend a bit and deal with noise I think the 6950 is probably better perf/dollar.

[Jonathan]

Just asked Newegg for an RMA on that 6870. AMD may have dramatically improved their Linux drivers, but they still aren't playable.

L4D2 - crashes on start up
Alien Swarm - invisible monsters & invisible characters
Supreme Commander 2 - invisible units
Eve - crashes fairly frequently

Back to Nvidia. I guess I will skip the DisplayPort and get the damn 560 I linked above. Going to poke around just a little first.

[Jonathan]

Bought the Gigabyte 560 Ti OC. Apparently "poke around" means "just damn buy it."

[quantus]

I ordered the 6950 and hoping to flash it to a 6970 which will be awesome. I'm still waiting for damn motherboard supplies to catch up. Newegg is listing P67 boards, but they're perpetually "sold out". Also, the board I wanted is still not even listed yet. The models above and below in the feature stack are there, and the micro version of the board I want is also listed. Probably another couple of weeks still until I can get the board I want.