Request for Experiences
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Hi Folks.
A pro-bono customer of mine just called me up and let me know that he needs me to do a motherboard/uP swap for him; which will necessitate swaps of the memory and video card, because of motherboard architecture deltas from old to new.
So far, we've stayed with MSI and Matrox for MoBo and video card; however, this time around, his requirements have changed to include higher 3D frame rate performance, which Matrox just doesn't excel at, but nVidia does. Irritatingly...my direct experience with nVidia chipsets and Linux is nearly nil on the PCIe cards, so I'm trolling for your direct experience with SimplyMEPIS and nVidia chipset-sporting PCIe video cards.
So far, I've whittled-down my list of cards to choose from to the first 48 video cards (prices under $200.00) this NewEgg.com product listing but don't have much experience to fall-back upon with these specific products.
So, the favor I'm asking you for is this:
1.) Please look at this video card listing and consider the video cards having prices under $200.00.
2.) If you have any of the listed video cards working with a 6.0 or later release version of SimplyMEPIS, please tell me which video card you have and which version of SimplyMEPIS it is working with.
3.) If you found it necessary to secure drivers that were not included with the version of SimplyMEPIS that you are running, please mention that and, if possible, the origin of the driver code.
Quote:PCIe? (other than the
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PCIe? (other than the specifications) It's just another funny connector on the MOBO, not unlike AGP. Just look it carefully and pop the card in.
I hit him with the proposition of the 64b/7300GS card, and he came back asking about this one EVGA 256-P2-N625-AR GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card; which looks to be a good card, and is in the same GPU family, so I'm hoping to be able to go with that one since he can pony-up the scratch to pay for it.
So...to put a finer-point on my earlier question: Has anyone had any experience with 7900GS nVidia GPU support on SimplyMEPIS? Direct experience with this card would be extremely helpful at this particular time.
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Sorry, no direct experience,
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Sorry, no direct experience, but I see that the card is supported by the official NVidia driver so I don't think there will be problems, maybe only booting initially to VESA...
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Thanks...sticking so long
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Thanks...sticking so long with Matrox really has deprived me of nVidia experience, for which I haven't the time to compensate, as I'm playing lawyer for the next few weeks.
I appreciate the consideration this has been given.
The card selection was listed as being out of stock, so he went for the EVGA 256-P2-N765-AR GeForce 8600GTS instead. I guess we'll see what happens.
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I have a 7900GS - working both 6.5 and 7 Beta
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EnigmaOne,
I've got a Leadtek 7900GS 256Mb PCIe, and am using it with both Mepis 6.5 and also Mepis 7.0 Beta. My PC is a Dell Dimension 5150, 3Gb Ram, 2 x 80Gb SataII HDD.
The card runs really well. Better recognition (nvidia-settings) through 7 beta, but runs fine under 6.5. Installed nvidia driver through Mepis X-assistant - no issues at all. Beryl runs like a dream. Have had no issues with any 3D apps so far - including native Linux games (Doom3, Q4 etc).
I bought it before the 8600/8800's came out - but even now, I'd probably stick with the 7900 series .... simply because I have no need for DX10, and also the lower end 8500/8600 are all 128-bit bus - so the 7900 performance is actually better (256-bit bus).
Hope this helps.
Nvidia clone
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EVGA 256-P2-N436-LX GeForce 7300GS 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
The above, from your link, is what I'm using with Mepis 6.5 (The only difference is, I paid close to a $100 for the card, when I bought it.
PCIe? (other than the specifications) It's just another funny connector on the MOBO, not unlike AGP. Just look it carefully and pop the card in.
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My box is an HP Pavilion a1700n. Originally, it had integrated graphics. I bought the NVidia card to offload the video memory requirement from the system and (obviously)for better graphics performance. The only other addition from the base system was the addition another Gig of ram. (Total of 2.)
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It should be noted that Mepis (6.5) did not recognize it (as an Nvidia card) out of the box. To facilitate the hard drive installation, I used the VESA driver. After the initial install, I manually installed the NVidia driver. Thereafter, using the driver was straight forward and of note is that dual monitor options("Twin View") are supported.
Hope that helps. Good luck.