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Subject: Re: AMD Radeon 290
From: Rob Byrnes <rbyrnes@gmail.com>
To: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>
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If you aren't doing 3D anything then it s probably not worth spending money
on a new card.

Just my 2c
Rob
On 28/06/2015 12:03 am, "Baho Utot" <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> I am looking to upgrade my graphics card from a Radeon HD6770 to an AMD
> 290.  This work station dual boots
> FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Wed May 13 06:54:13 UTC 2015
> root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> and win7.   This will be for email, web browsing etc,  no 3D rendering
> required.
>
> I have looked at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics and it states that the
> card is not supported.
>
> Is any one currently using an AMD R9 series graphics card?
>
> If so can you give my some feedback on upgrading to an AMD R9?
>
> What works/doesn't work etc
>
> Thanks
>
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