[NBLUG/talk] Intermittent USB failures getting worse; search for new motherboard becomes more urgent (long)

[Jippen]

As far as video cards go, I'm running Beryl on a nVidia 6600 GX
without an issue. Got mine off newegg for ~100 bucks with 2 DVI ports.
I use a DVI-VGA adaptor to connect to my 21 inch Viewsonic CRT and the
quality is just spiffy. Also, a major benefit of going with nVidia
cards rather then ATI is easier setup, and SLI. Get an SLI motherboard
and a SLI-capable card, and get to the point where you need more
graphical power? Just buy a second, matching card to what you have and
plug it in.
As far as ram, you'll prolly have to get new stuff, but a 1 GB stick
won't set you back that much. And, as far as CAS latency goes, IMHO 1
gig of ram at 3 CAS isn't gonna be as useful as 2 gigs at 5. But thats
just me. And, to save a good bit of money now, just get 1 quad-core
CPU. If you decide later that you would enjoy the speed of having two,
go ahead and get it. I would also note that unless you are doing
high-end sound stuff, integrated sound cards have come a long way and
are really great on new mobos. Might wanna just use that instead of an
expansion card if you have it.
Also, 10/100/1000 ethernet ports are fairly standard on motherboards
now, so that should be easy to get.

On 3/16/07, Steve Johnson <fratm at adnd.com> wrote:
> On 3/16/07, Sean <seanvanco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As for VGA vs DVI, DVI ports do supposedly offer better resolution,
> > but the images appear to be just fine if you use a DVI to VGA adapter.
> > I don't use HD, so I cannot speak to that possibility. I don't know
> > how the nVidia driver for Linux handles multi-monitor support, so you
> > may want to specifically look into that (such as desktop spanning,
> > stretching, etc.).
>
> In my experience, one of the things that I noticed about DVI vs VGA,
> is that when you change resolutions, you do not get that pause and
> screen blanking as the system tries to figure out what you are doing.
> When I change resolutions, it is almost instant now, where with my VGA
> connected display I have that pause and blank screen for a second or
> 2.
>
> Nvidia's drivers for multi displays are great, and in my opinion a
> breeze to setup, where ATI can be troublesome and not quite work the
> way you expect them to.  I have an ATI setup at work with 2 LCD
> displays connected via DVI, and it took me a while to get them to work
> as one big desktop, and I stil can't get beryl/compiz to work on it,
> but if I drop to one display beryl/compiz runs fine..  At home setting
> this all up on my nvidia GeForce card (7600GT) was  as easy as pie.
>
> I tend to stick with nvidia for my graphics cards, even though their
> drivers are not open source, they are still pretty darn good compared
> to the ATI stuff.
>
> I have heard good things about the Intel graphics, all though a bit
> slower, the drivers are opensource (I believe), and have great linux
> support, I have read that a lot of people are choosing the Intel
> graphics for this reason.
>
> -Steve
>
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