From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 9:29:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.unibe.ch (mailhub.unibe.ch [130.92.254.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2CAD37B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by mailhub.unibe.ch (PMDF V5.2-32 #42480) id <0G0H00M014B9QY@mailhub.unibe.ch> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:25:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from iamexwi.unibe.ch (haegar.unibe.ch [130.92.71.10]) by mailhub.unibe.ch (PMDF V5.2-32 #42480) with ESMTP id <0G0H00FKK4B84P@mailhub.unibe.ch> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:25:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pissarro.unibe.ch (pissarro [130.92.62.30]) by iamexwi.unibe.ch (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27957 for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:32:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (roth@localhost) by pissarro.unibe.ch (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA15370 for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:32:03 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:32:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tobias Roth Subject: gfx card recommendations In-reply-to: <001b01c0181e$53e31390$0a0a0a0a@sysenglt112> X-Sender: roth@pissarro To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-warning: pissarro.unibe.ch: roth owned process doing -bs Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I have the opportunity to buy a new grafic card. I will need this card mostly for running my Xfree 4.01 desktop (a resource hungry enlightenment/gnome with multiple desktops and that funny transparency thing ;). Now I was wondering what grafic card would be best for my needs. I am tending towards a Matrox G400, but those are somewhat old. It would be nice if the card could do 3D in a decent speed, but that is much less important than fast 2D for my desktop. Now, what cards would you recommend? What features are most important? A lot of Ram? Does it even matter what card I choose or are they all more or less the same considering 2D speed? Thanks, Tobe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message