Date: 04 Mar 2002 14:04:19 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA 3D FreeBSD Drivers Message-ID: <1015279459.307.29.camel@positron.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203040927530.22526-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203040927530.22526-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>
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No, it doesn't plug into the wall. It has a power connector just like an IDE drive. (My v3 requires one for its fan, so power connections to video weren't new to me). However, the SLI (dual processors) is not supported in the open-source Glide, meaning a V4 and V5 should run at the same speed. The V5 also performs similarly to a Radeon DDR in the tests I've done, just slightly faster generally. Work was being done quite a while ago to get SLI working, but the developer ran out of time, and the only success ever was that he got a simple console Glide app running fullscreen with SLI, iirc. This was quite a bit before the Nvidia buyout of 3dfx. On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 06:28, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Yeah, it's great if I want to plug the video card into the wall, or buy a > card that is made by a company that no longer exists. > > Ken > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Matt H wrote: > > > > > > > > Spending that money may get you working 3d, but it won't be very fast. > > > > The Voodoo 5 5500 uses dual 3dfx VSA-100 processors to generate an amazing > > 667 Megapixels per second > > > > Is that not fast enough for you? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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