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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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On Sep 19, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Kirk Strauser wrote:

> On Monday 19 September 2005 16:48, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>
>>     5600/5800's aren't bad. In fact I might get one to replace my  
>> old Ti
>> 4200 sometime in the near future. But if you want to get the 6200 or
>> somewhere around the 6000 series, they are quite a bit better I've  
>> heard
>> since they aren't overclocked 4000 series cards =).
>>
>
> Thanks.  Do you know of any FreeBSD-specific gotchas, and in  
> particular
> whether RenderAccel works (or is still needed for tolerable  
> performance)?
> -- 
> Kirk Strauser
> The Day Companies

     Not in particular. Any card in the upper-5000 series and any  
card in the 6000 will work with RenderAccel nicely, I believe. My  
card was just too ancient to really try out that feature, but it was  
a 4200 too.
-Garrett