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In advance I want to apologise if this is not the right category for this post.
I'm having a dilemma, I'm running arch on a pentium 4, with 1.5G memory and KDE 4 and a nvidia geforce 4 with proprietary drivers. But now a friend of mine gave me an ASUS EAX550HM512 witch as an ATI Radeon X550 GPU i thing.
I would like your opinion, if it worth swapping the cards in terms of performance, since with ati I would have to use the open-source driveres (by the way I'm not criticising the drivers witch are great, I use them in my laptop)? Thanks in advanced.
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I think you should definitely give it a try.
http://www.hardware-infos.com/grafikkarten_charts.php
According to this ranking it is probably not really much better but the driver may be better. I doubt that nvidia really develops the driver for such an old card.
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May I prove you wrong? No offense, indeed.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_disp … 43.14.html
They have even added support for xorg-server 1.7.
My personal experience with ATI is not so good. My ATI card would not work with kernel mode setting, which is the default for kernel 2.6.31, so it caused me a lot of problems to disable it. On Windows 7, if its allowed to say this here, they don't provide drivers for their older cards (mine is three years old).
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