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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mindspring.com!mindspring!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.147.226.2!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: Good 4mb video card for XFree86 Message-ID: <nG9gXEP@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix, +1 408 249 9630, log in as guest. References: <57cecf$rv3@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu> <57ir2p$2v3@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 06:19:17 UTC Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32409 nsj@litterbox.catt.ncsu.edu (Nathan Scott Johnson) writes: >John Murray (jmurray@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu) wrote: >% I am currently considering upgrading my video card andI am looking for >% recomendations on which cards would be a good choice. >I've got a Number Nine Motion 771 with 4MB in litterbox, and it's fantastic. >It's quick, and it's beautiful in X. For more information: >http://www.nine.com/ I second that, although at work I have managed to get ahold of a P-pro 200 with 64M of RAM and a Matrox Millenium. Don't ask me how. I can't think of any X operation I've tried that didn't happen faster than I could see it happen. I can drag around full 24 bit xv windows and even if they get obscured by other windows while I'm dragging, the refreshing happens too fast to see. It is truly an experience bordering on religious. The XFree86 server has supposedly only embryonic Matrox support, but even so it is truly breathtaking. Of course the machine probably cost a bundle... At home I just have a P-120 with a Motion 771, and it's no slouch... -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | I can't drive 55 (SPECints, that is) +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ |