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From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
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Subject: Re: nVidia card manufacturer recommendations
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On 03/14/12 08:57, Arthur Chance wrote:
> Somewhere, possibly here, a while back I saw a remark that certain
> manufacturer's nVidia cards worked reliably with the nVidia supplied
> drivers and others usually have problems because they tweak nVidia's
> reference spec. Of course, I didn't bookmark it and neither Google nor
> searching the last years' worth of the freebsd-questions@ archives has
> turned it up.
>
> 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've just realised that I probably should have added "for an amd64 system".