[good]Video Card Recommendations

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:46:46PM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
> i bought about the best nvidia for my machine (on the marktet 18 months ago).
> it has a horrible bug that the accelerated playback of video,
> i.e. xv or something that can be hardware scaled,
> goes to "BLUE" and stays blue unless one drops out of X and comes back in
> (you dont have to reboot).
> It happens maybe 2-3 times a week if you say maybe view 1/2 of video.
> It was so annoying as I would not normally  used to having to restart X.
> (i just check today , one of my desktop regular use machines has been up 267 days, with no
> reboot and no X restart), so i get used to having ssh windows, browser windows, etc stay up and stay
> put for 100's of days on end, and restarting X even only twice a week or so was annoying.
> So i switched to an old early ATI radeon, and it has been perfect for many months.
> I googled, scowered kernel new posting, emailed, updated drivers, update kernels,
> tried it on a diff mother board, no matter what, the Nvidia will blue out permanently on 
> HW video playback. And i had it happen with another NV card to. And others on the news groups
> have experienced it and their is know post sol'n.
> So I liked the Nvidia's performance, and Nvidia has drivers out timely for new kernels,
> but if you like your desktop to stay put for atleast 30+ days (to a few 100's)
> and you play back video, the Nvidia could be very very  risky.
> You can play back video in non-accelerated mode (once it goes blue), but that means no
> realtime scaling, filters (i.e. de-interlacing which is important on tv captures).

I believe that driver bug was fixed a long time ago.  I do remember it
though.

> By the way , if you decide on Nvidia ....
> I have a used MSI Nvidia (chip set)  FX 5900 (8x AGP) for sale!

Was a rather nice card, although it might be a bad choice for a system
for showing videos given the very large fan it has.

Not a 5800 by any means, but still quite the fan. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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