Nvidia 9600?

[Jonas Norlander]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Alan Dacey Sr.<Grokit at ajinfosearch.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 August 2009 12:53:36 pm Knapp wrote:
>> >> (??), an 8800 GTS, and currently a GTX 260.  The only headache I had
>> >> was when I put the GTX 260
>>
>> I am running 8.04 but if 4.3 makes the next new Kubuntu usable I might
>> be switching. Sadly I still can't stand KDE 4 and use 3. :-(
>>
>> Is the GTX 260 way faster than the 9600?
>>
> . . .
>
>
> I would say it is.  If you take a look at link #1 for an example of fanless
> 9600's, you see it has 1/3 rd the number of stream processors as the 260, link
> #2.  They are the main go-go juice, the more you have, the more the card can
> handle.  There are other considerations to take into account also, but that is
> the big one.  Link #3 shows the difference in performance.  All I know is that
> I can play Oblivion, Fallout 3, Bioshock, etc with full settings at 1900x1200
> on a 24 inch screen and have no slowdowns or stuttering video.  You would have
> to scale back the detail (and probably the resolution) on the 9600 to get the
> same thing.

I have a Asus 9600 GT fanless and it works great in Jaunty, cheap,
silent and enough power for most things. Intrepid had some graphics
bugs with Xorg/Nvidia driver but you could live with it.

/ Jonas