ATI or Nvidia

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I experience a new problem with ati driver installing 11.2.
I want to build a new PC. What is the best choice for graphic card. I want best driver quality, not best speed.

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In a word - Nvidia

If you explain more about what you expect it to do we might be able to be more specific.

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My problem is not what I expect to do. It what I dont’t expect to have : bug, freeze, black screen…
Now I have a Radeon X1650. Open driver does’nt manage properly dual monitor and ati driver is buggy.
So I want to know if nvidia drivers are better.
Thanks

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I currently use nvidia 8500GT pci-e 512MB
Works perfectly. Mine is modified to be fanless, but that’s nothing to do with it’s driver performance.

But most nvidia has no problem.

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On openSUSE-11.1 the ATI proprietary driver works well for driving an external display (on a projector) from a laptop with an ATI Radeon HD3450 using xrandr. I have not recently tried 11.2 with this laptop.

Reference the open source radeon and radeonhd drivers, there have been some recent updates in the X11 : XOrg directory which are a significant improvement for some users with ATI hardware and openSUSE-11.2:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.2/

using these apps:

  • mesa-7.7-5.3
  • xorg-x11-driver-input-7.4-58.1
  • xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-146.2
  • xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_20091124_6387ab4-15.5
    and possibly ( ? ) others for a 64-bit openSUSE ? … (I tried them on a 32-bit PC). However I do not know if the open source radeon driver suports a dual monitor.

For a desktop display, my preference is DEFINITELY for nVidia. For a laptop display, because of historical (and ugly) nVidia quality problems, I’m less inclinded to select nVidia and more inclined to select ATI.