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Date:      Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:48:50 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recommended AGP Nvidia card?
Message-ID:  <432F3242.4010508@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200509191556.44034.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <200509191556.44034.kirk@strauser.com>

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Kirk Strauser wrote:

>I use an aging MX 400 in my desktop machine (FreeBSD 6.0something) and 
>really, *really* want to upgrade to something that supports the RenderAccel 
>option.  This machine has become glacially slow since some 
>as-yet-undetermined upgrade broken that functionality, but I'd ideally like 
>to be able to use X.org's Composite extension as well so simple downgrading 
>probably won't help.
>
>Any suggestions for a cheap, well-supported card?
>
    5600/5800's aren't bad. In fact I might get one to replace my old Ti 
4200 sometime in the near future. But if you want to get the 6200 or 
somewhere around the 6000 series, they are quite a bit better I've heard 
since they aren't overclocked 4000 series cards =).
-Garrett



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