From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 18 21:26:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00990 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 21:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00913 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 21:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA18133; Tue, 19 May 1998 13:55:14 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199805190425.NAA18133@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Jose M. Alcaide" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: graphics card recommendations... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 May 1998 09:45:28 MST." <4899.895250728@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:55:12 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > that this card only exists for PCI; only the Millennium II 4MB > > is available for AGP bus. > So buy the PCI card? :-) I don't really see the whole attraction of > AGP, to be honest. Well, considering that most cards with AGP are basically the PCI card with the interface hacked to support AGP, the speed difference is minimal.. Although when true AGP cards come out them some improvements may be had, probably in the line of more CPU left over, because blits take less time.. Also having a 3D card use main memory as texture RAM (with a local cache :) could be tatsy =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message