Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 15:25:03 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> Cc: Chris <chrismar@readington.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI Xpert 98? Message-ID: <3723963F.4EE0AA9B@uswest.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904241248080.8585-100000@walnut.readington.com> <19990424182647.E256@marder-1> <37229D96.5CDF7C4A@uswest.net> <19990425101351.A253@marder-1>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 09:44:06PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> Mark Ovens wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 12:49:55PM -0400, Chris wrote: >>>> I was curious as to if anyone ha had any problems with this >>>> card. How does it work under X? >>> >>> I've got an Xpert@Work (Rage Pro II chipset) and it works fine >>> (Mach64 X server). Previously I had a Graphics Xpression, which >>> also worked without problem. ATI cards seem to be a good bet. >> >> Except for the Rage 128 (Fury, Magnum) series. Their RAMDACs aren't >> fast enough for large desktops > > Aren't they 230MHz (or faster)? I'm not entirely certain, but I do know that I wasn't able to run my monitor at it's maximum refresh in 1600x1200 mode. My G200 and TNT cards could. For a card with 32MB of memory and being advertised the way it is, it was surprising that they didn't use a faster RAMDAC. >> and the heatsink on them is way too >> small, I had two of these and they cooked themselves to the point of >> melting the PCB and causing power-down failures after less than two >> days of use. > > Ugh, that's *bad*. JOOI, you weren't using them in a tower case > were you? I've always been slighty concerned about overheating on > cards which are horizontal with the chips on the underside (or on > the top if there's another card above them). There's not exactly > a lot of air flowing around that area of a case. Granted, they cards were upside down in a tower case, but they were in the exact same spot as my TNT and G200 cards, neither of which overheat. Both had the stock cooling hardware. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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