From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Aug 2 10:18: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat200.74.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.200.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE14214D49 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:17:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA00916; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:17:07 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:17:06 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3D board for XFree86 GLX - Please recommend In-Reply-To: <199908021658.JAA97273@whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Doug Rabson writes: > | On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Marc van Woerkom wrote: > | > Possible. AGP bandwith is 2x or 4x of PCI. > | AGP is 2x or 4x 32bit PCI at 33Mhz. 64bit PCI at 66Mhz matches AGP speeds > | without reinventing the wheel... > > Yep, I hate AGP ... my guess is Intel had trouble making a real PCI slot > work like it is supposed to so they invented AGP so they only had to > make one separate PCI slot work. I like the AGP...I still have the same number of slots on my motherboard that I ever had, but one less used up since they add'd the AGP. If they had taken away a slot to give me AGP, then, ya, I'd have to agree, but now instead of 7 slots, I have 8 *shrug* Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message