Advice on nVidia cards - Pre Purchasing

[jonathanbruce]

Hello Everyone.

I am building a new rig to run linux on, specifically for reading all harddrive formats such as ext4, ntfs, and Hfs+.. I have been told the Linux does prefer nVidia to Radeon and have been using Radeons now for quite some time.

My MBPro does actually have NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M in it and i am impressed with it. But for a desktop i'm not sure i need that kind of GPU power. What do you people suggest? I have a budget of £80 to spend.


Any advice is very much appreciated.

regards

 

[yashiro]

If you get an Intel CPU you can just use the integrated functions for desktop work.

As for Radeon vs. Geforce on Linux you are generally better off getting Nvidia because their closed source driver is better. This is only if you are spending actual money on a card.

If you have old video cards sitting around then the Nvidia/Radeon argument doesn't really matter. Use what you have available. The AMD driver is good enough for most things.