[geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] Re: [geeks] T H E b r i Q

[joshua d boyd]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:06:42PM -0500, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> I have a feeling that's a very limited market for new cards.  You can
> still find GeForce2 cards in PCI, but they're very hard to find due to
> limited production, and I understand that they barely sold when first 
> released.

I hear they exists.  Haven't seen one yet though.  Best I've seen is a
TNT2 (not bad) or Rage 128.
 
> You can still find good PCI video, just usually not 3D super gaming card
> stuff, and those cards are darn-near useless in a non-PC anyway.  I
> mean, what good does a GeForce do you in an IBM, Briq, Sun, or the like?
> Gives you decent 2D, but that's it.

Why are they so useless in a nonPC?  Doesn't XFree still work?  Aren't the
G4s supposed to be nearly as good as the P4s?  And wouldn't it be nice to
have decent video performance on a non NT, non Tru64 600+ mhz alpha?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd