Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-20 Thread Roger Heflin
I had a 10 year old nvidia and was able to stay using the older last supported nvidia driver (on recent kernels) that was still being built in rpm fusion and still supported the older cards, and still decode the 1080P/x264 with a massively slow Atom 330. Updates worked as well as new nvidia cards.

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 12:40 -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:36 AM Roger Heflin > wrote: > > > > You might have to buy a cheap throw away card.    There are way too > > many people going after the "good" mining cards right now. > > > > https://www.newegg.com/asus-geforce-

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-20 Thread Alex
Hi, On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:36 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > You might have to buy a cheap throw away card.There are way too many > people going after the "good" mining cards right now. > > https://www.newegg.com/asus-geforce-gt-710-gt710-sl-2gd5-csm/p/N82E16814126211?Item=N82E16814126211 >

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-19 Thread Roger Heflin
You might have to buy a cheap throw away card.There are way too many people going after the "good" mining cards right now. https://www.newegg.com/asus-geforce-gt-710-gt710-sl-2gd5-csm/p/N82E16814126211?Item=N82E16814126211 Is a basic card, it is $70+shipping Verify that the 4k support is goo

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-19 Thread Alex
Hi, > What kind of motherboard/system do you have and does it support more than > PCI2.1? It's the Asus Z370-A and appears to support PCIe 3.0 https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/All-series/PRIME-Z370-A/ > Unless you are doing gaming and/or some other intensive video I

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-15 Thread Roger Heflin
This feature is called nvenc and is for streaming your output to a website as gamers do with their gameplay and/or various webcam services. It can also be used with ffmpeg to re-encode video at a much faster rate than all but the most extreme systems. I have about the oldest nvidia card that sup

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-15 Thread Alex
Hi, > What do you mean by you use one monitor for streaming? Note that the > nvidia cards with their driver are much better for encoded video if that is > what you mean by streaming. The AMD cards are garbage for video encoding > much worse quality than nvidia even at much higher bitrates.

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-14 Thread Roger Heflin
What do you mean by you use one monitor for streaming? Note that the nvidia cards with their driver are much better for encoded video if that is what you mean by streaming. The AMD cards are garbage for video encoding much worse quality than nvidia even at much higher bitrates. A lot depends

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-14 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
pe, 2021-05-14 kello 14:35 -0400, Alex kirjoitti: > I realize it's a terrible time to purchase a video card, but do you > have any recommendations? > I have an Nvidia card myself, so take this with a pinch of salt, but from what I have heard, the newer AMD cards are what you'll want to get on Lin

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 5/14/21 12:54 PM, Alex wrote: On 5/14/21 12:35 PM, Alex wrote: How would this card perform supporting three monitors? Try it and find out for yourself. Well, I've already had to disable hardware acceleration in Chrome because I think it couldn't support streaming reliably, but I certainly w

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-14 Thread Alex
> On 5/14/21 12:35 PM, Alex wrote: > > How would this card perform supporting three monitors? > > Try it and find out for yourself. Well, I've already had to disable hardware acceleration in Chrome because I think it couldn't support streaming reliably, but I certainly will try it. ___

Re: Video controller recommendations

2021-05-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 5/14/21 12:35 PM, Alex wrote: How would this card perform supporting three monitors? Try it and find out for yourself. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedor

Video controller recommendations

2021-05-14 Thread Alex
Hi, I currently have an AMD Radeon 5770 with 1GB that must be at least ten years old. I've just purchased a 32" Samsung to go with my two 27" connected using DVI. If I continue to use this card, I would connect the 32" with the HDMI or DisplayPort adapter. How would this card perform supporting t