one thing though, there is some minor tearing, not sure if there is away to
fix it. any suggestions?
thx.
.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Dot Yet <dot.yet at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, I went ahead an bought a much cheaper card :) GT 720 for CAD70!
>
> followed the instructions mentioned here:
>
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-setup-xorg-with-nvidias-driver.52311/,
> used the drives from x11/nvidia-driver binary package.
>
> Happy Camper!!
>
> Wonderful graphics! and 4k videos look amazing :) dual monitor setup, both
> monitors discovered automatically, I just had to fix their placement in
> xfce.
>
> Thanks everyone for their opinion and help. Enjoy the weekend!
>
> tjx.
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> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin at gwdg.de>
wrote:
>
>> Am 04.09.2015 um 18:11 schrieb Dot Yet:
>> > Seems 950 is supported now though:
>> >
>> > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us
>>
>> Yes, there is a binary driver for 950 at NVidia, but AFAIK it does not
>> exist as a port on FreeBSD until now.
>>
>> Because there a some new internal changes in the driver and its file
and
>> directory structure, the port has to be adopted to these changes. O.
>> Hartmann makes a suggestion for a patch almost one month ago [1].
>>
>> HTH,
>> Rainer
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202228
>>
>> >
>> > thx.
>> > .
>> >
>> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Dot Yet <dot.yet at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> makes sense. I am very likely to revert back to haswell when
support
>> for
>> >> it is there and move this card over to one of the other
machines.
>> >>
>> >> so, based on what you said, for now 950 is not an appropriate
choice?
>> is
>> >> it correct?
>> >>
>> >> thx.
>> >> .
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Jan Bramkamp <crest at
rlwinm.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 04/09/15 16:34, Dot Yet wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hello,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I currently run haswell based desktop and am planning
to add a
>> second gpu
>> >>>> to get decent graphics functional. I am thinking about
purchasing
>> nvidia
>> >>>> gtx 750ti. can anyone confirm if its supported by
drivers and is
>> capable
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> hardware acceleration? if not, what current day gpu
should i look
>> for? I
>> >>>> am
>> >>>> not a gamer, but I do like watching 1080p
movies/trailers etc.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Please let me know.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes a Nvidia GTX 750ti is supported by the closed source
binary driver
>> >>> according to https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx
(enter your
>> data
>> >>> and you end up at
>> >>>
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us).
>> >>>
>> >>> A GTX 750ti is a bit overpowered for light desktop and
media usage but
>> >>> based on a dated microarchitecture and lacks hardware
support for the
>> >>> upcoming h.265 video codec.
>> >>>
>> >>> Nvidia drops support for old hardware in their driver from
time to
>> time
>> >>> and newer chips have a lower idle power consumption for a
given peak
>> >>> performance so you might want to look for a GPU with a
newer
>> >>> microarchitecture. The GTX950 would be a good fit but the
nvidia
>> driver
>> >>> port is not yet up to version 352.41 which adds support
for the
>> GTX950.
>>
>>
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