[linux-audio-user] Re: which graphics card?

[Thomas Vecchione]

> 
> Furthermore even if transparency is done on the graphics board, it
> still takes up more cpu-cycles. So my fine sessions with ~10
> TAP-plugins and Jamin and hydrogen + transparency take up way to much
> cpu-power (over 50% that is). 


Yep that is why I had never bothered in the past, though something like 
that could be very useful to me so that I can free up desktop space 
elsewhere.  I am actually looking at replaceing my single core processor 
with twin dual core processors, and as it is it does take a little bit 
for me to use up most of my processor(But I still do it;) so I can 
probably afford the cycles if it helps my workflow.

That and I already have a NVidia card and dont have a problem using the 
binary blob;)  Though I am safely staying out of this conversation for 
the time being, Lee and I already discussed viewpoints on this once in 
recent past, so no need for me to repeat it at the moment I dont think.

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