Best free software video card available that also does 3D acceleration?
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Please help. :D I'm going to build a computer.
Go to www.h-node.org
you will find the supported hardware
just make sure that it was tested on Trisquel, not Debian
I'm getting the Asus F2A85-M/CSM motherboard because of coreboot support.
But here on the FSF site it says "Hardware 3D acceleration will not work with this setup."
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/systems
Does that mean even if I get a card that works with free software and has 3D acceleration, that it still won't work with that motherboard?
No graphics will work on that board unless you use blobs in boot
firmware (and maybe a discrete PCIe card which stores them in a
different chip), then only the VESA driver will work unless you use a
non-libre kernel with more blobs (or a supported PCIe non-AMD card). If
you are getting it because of coreboot support, get also a supported
APU: Richland is not supported.
You may want to get the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT which will currently give you the best price/performance ratio within graphic cards (until the reclocking is properly implemented in Nouveau so newer models will get a comparable performance against the NVIDIA binary driver). It can be purchased for example here (beware that some of these shops can be fraud).
However, the best graphic card can be considered to be the GX2 variant, which does have two onboard GPUs but I don't know whether this will give you any benefit (i.e. how Nouveau handles cards that have two physical cores).
In case you'll go after a blobby Intel motherboard, you should rather use an integrated GPU found in compatible processors. However, graphic cards from NVIDIA may still be useful in cases when some game/program will refuse to run with an integrated Intel GPU (rare).
According to WOT,[1] that site is a scam. Just so you know.
[1] https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/worldbuy.biz
Thanks for the information; I just blindly trusted Google about this. I'll be more careful in the future with these "so-called" shops.
Search on eBay for compatible cards (please ignore the link in my previous post):
http://www.ebay.com/sch/27386/i.html?_nkw=geforce+9800&_sop=15
Also, I advise you to read this Phoronix article so you know what you're buying:
If you don't need a video card, the best GPU you can get is an Intel integrated GPU. It comes with all modern Intel CPUs (the current one is called "Intel HD").
Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 is a pretty good bet: http://ur1.ca/ibls2
ThinkPenguin recommends this card (which admittedly is their product, but they're libre-friendly I think in this case).
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