From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 18 19:13:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from miris.lcs.mit.edu (miris.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFE6113CC for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:13:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beng@lcs.mit.edu) Received: from alnitak (root@miris.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.89]) by miris.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA12595; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:13:42 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902190313.WAA12595@miris.lcs.mit.edu> From: "Benjamin Greenwald" To: "Chris Knight" , Subject: RE: Recomendation on supported AGP Video card. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:13:42 -0500 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-reply-to: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chris Knight > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 6:52 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: REQ: Recomendation on supported AGP Video card. > > > Greetings, > > I am upgrading my server and would like to solicit suggestions for a > good AGP video card that is supported by FreeBSD/XFree. > > Any suggestions appreciated! > > -ck > The conventional wisdom seems to be mostly dependent on your desire to run at resolutions of 1600x1200 or higher. If that is the case, you are almost certainly better off with the Matrox Millenium G200. Matrox is famous for their high quality analog engineering and the signal to noise ratio on it's output is far superior to anything else out there. It also, at least to my eye, has the nicest looking 3D output. If you don't have a high end fancy 21" monitor or don't plan to run it at 1600x1200 or higher, the NVIDIA Riva TNT cards will serve you quite well and have a faster 3D engine than the G200. Be careful, though, not all TNT's are equivalent. Unlike the Matrox boards, the chip and the board for TNT based cards is manufactured by two different companies. Depending on the brand you buy it may have better/worse quality, performance and heat characteristics. People seem to have few complaints about the Diamond Stealth v550. If I were to buy a TNT, that would be it. Tom's Hardware Guide (http://www.tomshardware.com) has a featured comparison this month of the current Riva TNT cards and is a generally good source of information. -Ben Greenwald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message