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To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>
Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au,
	Ping Mai <ping@stepnet.com>
Subject: Re: video card recommendation? 
References: <19990514210032.X55051@001101.zer0.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990514210032.X55051@001101.zer0.org>
    from Gregory Sutter at "Fri, 14 May 1999 21:00:33 -0700"
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 17:23:59 +1000
From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
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On Friday, 14th May 1999, Gregory Sutter wrote:

>On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 06:39:29PM -0700, Ping Mai wrote:
>> 
>> Can someone recommend a good video card that works well in
>> XFree86 and WinNT?  Does the Matrox MGA-200 work with
>> Xfree?
>
>If you're not doing 3D, and are running XFree 3.3.3.1 or newer, then
>I wholeheartedly recommend the Matrox Millennium G200.  It is 
>lightning fast.

You forgot to mention the excellent image quality.  The improvement over
my old S3 Trio64 is amazing!  And it is still adequate for many Windoze
3D games, despite not being anywhere near the fastest available.  I'm
certainly a happy customer!

Stephen.


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