On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Torben Stones torben@stonesweb.org.uk wrote:
Well last week my hard disk gave up the ghost. This is the first disk I've had that has actually died, the other two just started to produce loads of bad sectors and the SMART monitor gave me warning. But there was nothing with this drive, lucky I just backup most of the important stuff.
Anyway enough of my rambling. I could just buy a new hard disk and get every thing up and running, but I just might use this as an excus to update my computer (It's 6-7 years old), and get something more up-to-date and hopefully more efficient.
Finally my question. Has anyone got any experiance of the EffcientPC.co.uk guys? I was looking at the Flexible range that they do, and was wondering if I should go with the Camulus or Isis systems. The only difference is one is Intel/nVidia and the other is AMD/ATI (respectively) any thoughts?
And finaly has AMD open sourced the ATI graphics drivers yet? I am right in thinking that they committed to that when the bought ATI, am I not?
Anyway thanks for any thoughts. Torb
-- You've got a lot of choices in your life. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
AMD/ATI didn't open the fglx drivers up but they did give out hardware info to the developers of the open drivers and anyone else that wants them. NVIDIA's closed source drivers are more stable, support more features and have better performance from the reviews I've been reading. However if you compare the open source offerings i think the ATI drivers are in a good shape (and getting better) compared to NVIDIA's open source drivers.
Although i cant see an option for NVIDIA on there flexible range, they do have some Intel graphics cards in the Camulus witch have quite mature open source driver support although performance wise I'm not sure how the cards matchup.
My next card will be AMD/ATI i think, although i don't mind closed source drivers its nice to have everything work without having to play with recompiling the kernel module every driver upgrade.
Dennis