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Originally Posted by Timothy Miller
For older Nvidia cards, going to newer drivers often isn't NECESSARILY a good idea if it's not needed to work with a newer kernel or such anyway. There's been lots of tests (mind you, this is Windows but I'm willing to bet it applies for Linux also) that shows that Nvidia's performance with their drivers actually starts DROPPING after about 2-3 years due to all of Nvidia's optimizations for the latest and greatest and they completely stop optimizing for the older cards.
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Agreed. They also tend to break backwards compatibility inadvertantly - I don't mean to imply its some vast conspiracy, instead more like they just worry about 'whats ahead' and if something from years ago stops working it may or may not be a priority to fix.
If the monitor is attached to the add-in card, its using the add-in card, and I can't imagine a tower with a GTX 1050 and a competent A10 to be a bad choice for gaming.
