securitybreach Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 So the other day I bought 32gb of ddr3 2400MHz ram and a EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC Graphics Card. Well I received it yesterday but of course, my old card had mini-DP ports and I only had 1 DVI to DP adapter so I had to struggle with only 3 monitors until I was able to get an adapter from work today... Now everything is smokin fast with an awesome video card. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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goretsky Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Hello, Vroom, vroom! Regards, Aryeh Goretsky 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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raymac46 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 So you have switched to Nvidia Josh. Back to the dark side. Just kidding. I have both Nvidia and AMD here but my Linux card is AMD. Nvidia does work better with my train simulator programs in Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 So you have switched to Nvidia Josh. Back to the dark side. Just kidding. I have both Nvidia and AMD here but my Linux card is AMD. Nvidia does work better with my train simulator programs in Windows. Well I only run Linux but I was tired of having to hold back the xorg-server package because AMD was taking their sweet time to update their catalyst driver to support it. So I said screw it and moved to nvidia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 So are you going with the proprietary driver? Surely not Nouveau? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 So are you going with the proprietary driver? Surely not Nouveau? Yeah, noveau is absolute garbage. A lot of that is due to the developers having to reverse engineer the driver as nvidia is stingy with their source and they do not help with the floss driver like amd does. and it's barely useable because of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Yeah, noveau is absolute garbage. A lot of that is due to the developers having to reverse engineer the driver as nvidia is stingy with their source and they do not help with the floss driver like amd does. and it's barely useable because of that. I disagree that nouveau is garbage. Sure they have to reverse engineer so support for the most recent cards takes time. My old GTX560Ti worked perfectly with nouveau, but my current GTX970 needs the proprietary driver version 346.xx or later. I'm sure nouveau will catch up for Maxwell cards eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Awesome Josh!!! That's great! I rarely have issues with Nvidia in Linux. It's been ATI that has been the bugaboo for me over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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