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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: 45 graphic cards tested for MSWindows Message-ID: <1993Mar9.045805.5871@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <rcpt.731580191@rwa.urc.tue.nl> <1993Mar8.150146.14342@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <rcpt.731628677@rw8.urc.tue.nl> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 04:58:05 GMT Lines: 95 About XS3, it is a server which anyone can experiment with and people have done just that :-) It does not have all the fancy features in XFree86 and will never have them because to do so in essence it will become XFree86. The current architecture remains for future enhancement. About a DOS program to check out systems for the XS3 environment, I have one but it is not ready for release yet. It will be available soon. Please don't ask me when, because my response will be soon. Enclosed is a market survey of S3 cards done by Rich Murphey from the XFree86 core-team. Slightly edited by me. XS3 is known to work with just about any S3 911, 924, 801. The S3 Local Bus 805 cards are not good buy today. The fastest cards are expected to be S3 928, since I don't have a good working S3 928 card, no vga manufacturers will be mentioned at this time. For maximum performance you will need to get a fast 486/50Mhz system with 256K cache and preferably 12MB of memory. The server operates with less but due to lack of shared memory support in 386bsd you will more memory than usual. There is an experimental shared lib support floating around and I have not had the time to build the libraries, yet. At this time, there is limited support for vga cards which have a programmable clock synthetizer. An example of such a card which I don't support is the Diamond line of products. For Sigma legend S3 cards we have limited support in that we can set the clock to 60Mhz. For #9 line of products, we can program the clock synthetizer. >From rich@superego.sesqui.net Sun Dec 6 14:00:36 1992 Return-Path: <rich@superego.sesqui.net> Received: from superego.sesqui.net by nfs-serv.netcom.com (5.65/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id AA04675; Sun, 6 Dec 92 14:00:32 -0800 Received: by superego.sesqui.net (5.67/1.34) id AA05843; Sun, 6 Dec 92 16:03:54 -0600 Date: Sun, 6 Dec 92 16:03:54 -0600 From: rich@superego.sesqui.net (Rich Murphey) Message-Id: <9212062203.AA05843@superego.sesqui.net> To: hasty@netcom.com Subject: benchmarks Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Status: RO A. For under $100, the Tseng ET4000 is reasonable. In the $200 range an Actix graphic engine gives about six times the performance. card chip xstones price Tseng et4000 10k $90 9 $/k ProDesigner II et4000 10k $130 13 $/k F1280 (first model) S3 911 38k $170 4.5 $/k F1280 (most recent) S3 924 48k $210 4.4 $/k Actix GraphicEngine32 S3 801 100K+ ~$220 3.6 $/k S3-C805 GUI S3 805 ? $170 ? Actix S3 928 ? ~$329 ? Tseng ET4000 1MB $95 Compu Tek 214-994-0190 Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 1Mb+Sierra $210 OS Computer 800-938-6722 Orchid ProDesigner IIs 1Mb+Sierra $130 Dee One Systems 800-831-88084??n STB Win/X Ultra $270 Executive Computer 800-882-2802 S3-C805 GUI 1MB $170 Xxera Technology 818-286-5569 Actix 32b $220 ? Micro Concepts 1-800-software Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 1MB $170 Palo Alto Computer Systems, 415-493-8209 Actix GraphicEngine32 ~$210 Palo Alto Computer Systems, 415-493-8209 Someone in San Francisco was selling an ECLIPSE S3 911 based card for $120, so basically keep an eye on the prices because they are dropping Enjoy, Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming