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    Which Nvidia card?

    Could anyone recommend an Nvidia card for a new system?

    Cpu: (Intel) Q6600
    Ram: 2 GB Crucial

    I'm considering 7600 GT, 7900 GS and 8600 GT.

    The main uses include encoding/decoding video and 3D.

    Light gaming maybe but not a priority. A friend gave me WOW to try and another friend is a big gamer who has offered to lend me a game or two. They're Windoze users. But, I do mostly encoding/decoding, converting avis to dvd and video playback. I have no clue whether you can do hardware acceleration in Linux with any GPU but my cpu is probably powerful enough to offset any HA issues, right? In addition, I might want to dual boot with XP so I was leaning towards a 8600 GT for the HA intangibles but the drivers are still in BETA and not 100% developed yet (AFAIK).

    I want to use Linux more anyway so I am thinking Nvidia is probably the best bet to go with but which card? I also thought to go with a cheaper card in case ATI improves their drivers and offers a good card/driver combination at some point (but not betting on it). I have a computer already that could use a GPU upgrade but it's not required (as it has an ATI X300SE) since Kubuntu is installed. But, I haven't installed proper drivers for it yet. It's using VESA or something (not sure).

    I often use MPlayer, Kaffeine, Tovid, VLC etc.

    Comments? Recommendations? Advice? All welcome!!!!!!

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    Re: Which Nvidia card?

    The high definition h.264 decode pipeline hardware support is more complete on the 8600 series than the 7xxx series cards. Since games aren't very important I would probably go with the 8600.

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      #3
      Re: Which Nvidia card?

      Personally I use an 8800GTS 640mb card and it works beautifully

      I'd say anything above a 7600 GS/Gt should be great if you where near me I'd give you my hardly used 7600 GS 256mb for a £5, its just sitting about lol, great card though
      Compy: AMD 64x2 6000+, Crosshair mobo, Enermax PSU, 4GB DDR2 800, 8800GTS 640mb, 24in cheapy monitor + secondary 17in, aprrx 1.6tb storage (internal) + external DVDrw, lots of nice big blue shiny quiet fans.

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        #4
        Re: Which Nvidia card?

        To clarify things. The 8800 cards are great gaming cards. They do NOT have the same HD decode hardware support that the 8600 cards have so, for a video focus, the 8600 series would be preferred. Any of the cards mentioned should be fine for WOW.

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          #5
          Re: Which Nvidia card?

          You may want to look at this. Those are the cards you are interested in, sorted by price.
          For external use only.

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