Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> For several decades, I was a loyal AMD customer. But the last time I >> upgraded my home desktop (2013), AMD just didn't seem to have anything >> that could complete with the Core-i3/5 CPUs with integrated graphics. >> The Intel HD-2500 GPU was plenty fast enough for everything I did back >> then, so I went with an i3-3220T (2 cores, 4 threads), and have been >> very happy with it (except for the security vulnerabilties). It even >> handled it fine when I started working from home and added a second >> monitor. >> >> But, after the last update to the Heli-X flight simulator, I did >> notice that I'm bouncing off the rev-limiter on the GPU. In order to >> get a reasonable frame rate and sort-of-smooth background panning I >> had to dial-down or turn off all the configurable graphics features >> (anti-aliasing, smoke, reflections, etc.). Even with all of the fancy >> stuff turned off, it still sometimes struggles and the frame rate >> drops to below 20. >> >> I thought about buying a video card. A $40-50 Radeon or NVidia card >> would be more than enough GPU. In the past I've been burned by ATI >> cards being abandoned within a year or two of purcase. Is AMD any >> better about support? Of course, dealing with closed-source NVidia >> drivers is also annoying. >> >> Also, the motherboard/CPU are almost 8 years old. Maybe it's time for >> a new AMD Ryzen with an integrated GPU. Even the low-end sub-$100 >> Ryzen 3 with Vega 8 GPU would be a big jump in performance from the >> current Intel HD 2500. For another $40, a Ryzen 5 with Vega 11 GPU >> would completely outclass what I have now. >> >> How are the AMD "Wraith Stealth" fans? I've been using the fan that >> came with the old Core-i3, and it gets a little annoying when it's >> time to compile chromium (or when flying planes/helicopters). >> >> Any issues with Gentoo and Xorg on AMD integrated Vega 8/11 GPUs? >> >> AFAICT, the drivers are all open source, and it ought to "just work" >> with recent kernels. >> >> Unfortunately, the capaciters on the existing motherboard are all >> solid and probably aren't going to pop any time soon. > > So far, I've always bought AMD video cards too. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
That should be Nvidia based video cards. I had AMD on my brain. lol Dale :-) :-)
