Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 05:27:46 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, Christian Chen <oistrakh@earthlink.net>, FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OT: nVidia Cards picture/driver quality Message-ID: <3AD601B2.8DBE138B@quake.com.au> References: <20010412000523.I86970-100000@pirastro.oistrakh.org> <3AD5B145.EF09CEA4@mitre.org> <20010412161815.A95253@mail.webmonster.de>
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"Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote: > > Andresen,Jason R.(jandrese@mitre.org)@2001.04.12 09:44:37 +0000: > > You are right about the raster quality of the NVidia cards (Geforce > > especially). As you probably know, NVidia liceneses out their chipset > > (and a "reference board") to companies, and these companies do the > > final board design and manufacture your card. Apparently even the > > reference board from NVidia had rather bad raster issues, and most > > manufacturers weren't really set up to fix them, so they basically > > reproduced the reference board as is, leaving the problems in place. > > Also, GeForce cards are pretty expensive if all you want to do with > > them is sysadmin or do other 2D tasks. Warning: This paragraph > > is third hand information, your accuracy may vary. > you might also check out > http://www.geocities.com/porotuner/imagequality.html > wich conatins a not-so-nice (speak: ugly) mod involving handling of > soldering irons but seems to work. You would have to be really worried about the quality to do that!!! Do you know how small those parts are? The quality on my GeForce256 is fine... I dont see any bluriness at all... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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