From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 11:49:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81A21065670 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:49:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rodperson@rodperson.com) Received: from www6.pairlite.com (www6.pairlite.com [64.130.10.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59688FC08 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (unknown-ip-614.ccbh.upmc.edu [128.147.110.113]) by www6.pairlite.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 51A2EB803; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:49:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:49:34 -0400 From: Rod Person To: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <20120314074934.000049c9@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4F605D79.4070500@qeng-ho.org> References: <4F605D79.4070500@qeng-ho.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs7 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: nVidia card manufacturer recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:49:40 -0000 On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:57:29 +0000 Arthur Chance wrote: > > Can anyone recommend which manufacturers I should look at and/or > which I should avoid? I'm specifically looking at the low end GT520. > _______________________________________________ I have used cards from XFX and PNY without problem with the nvidia driver in the past. I'm currently using a FX1700 Quadro that came from an HP machine, it works without issue also, but I have not used any of the HP bios updates for it. -- Rod Person http://www.rodperson.com rodperson@rodperson.com 'Silence is a fence around wisdom'