Nvidia 9600?

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 15 August 2009 11:51:26 am Alan Dacey Sr. wrote:
> I've used three Nvidia cards in various builds and have had only little
> problems with any of them.  The first one was an old 5600 LS (??), an 8800
> GTS, and currently a GTX 260.  The only headache I had was when I put the
> GTX 260 in Kubuntu 8.04, the driver that made it work was not packaged for
> Hardy, I did not feel like bashing my head against the wall with a manual
> install. Since the entire Nvidia 9 series is really just the 8 series on
> steroids, I would take a guess that it will work like a charm.  I never had
> any problems with my 8800.  It's currently in my kid's machine and he is
> happily playing Spore, extreme Tux racer, etc.  I'm pretty sure it's using
> the 180 driver.
>
> Alan
>
> On Thursday 13 August 2009 01:55:59 am Knapp wrote:
> > I am looking at upgrading from an Nvidia 7600 gs to a Nvidia 9600 gt.
> > Does it work well with Linux? Is it worth the money? Is there a better
> > pick? I prefer silent or passively cooled cards. The 7600 was a terror
> > in the noise department until I found i could just unplug the fan
> > without heat problems (has been unplugged for 3 years, NP). My hardest
> > use of the card in with sculpting in Blender3d. Right now it is a bit
> > slow when I get above 300,000 verts.
> >
> > AMD 64 x2 on the slow end of them. Can't remember the exact speed right
> > now.

I have an AMD 64  x 4 and a 9600 GForce nVidia card that works great.  I don't 
know what you are spending, but I found prices quite low recently.  I also 
have onboard 9400 nVidia GForce that works with the newer card.  It also works 
great other than it does not have OpenGL and that is required for Jaunty 
Desktop Effects to work properly.  But when I went from default settings to the 
proper drivers, the video went from very good to WOW.  There was that much 
improvement.  I forget the number, but the 180 + drivers really made a 
difference to 3D effects and color in general.

Steven