<div dir="ltr">Before you try a new card, have you tried installing nvidia's Linux drivers? (<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/Download">http://www.nvidia.com/Download</a> or possibly in your distribution's software repository.) It could be your not taking full advantage of your GPU due to driver/configuration issue, and if that's the case a new video card wouldn't fix it. <div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Erik Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik.mitchell@gmail.com" target="_blank">erik.mitchell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I really can't make sense of the whole video card debate. On the one<br>
hand, Linus has blasted Nvidia, but for a long time I thought they<br>
were preferred among Linux users.</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Nvidia hasn't released the technical information needed to create open source drivers, instead releasing their own binary only drivers with varying degrees of stability. Even so, nvidia was still the best option for 3D acceleration under Linux for a long time. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><div class="gmail_extra">--</div><div class="gmail_extra">Andrew Zbikowski</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://andy.zibnet.us/">http://andy.zibnet.us/</a></div>
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