[geeks] Recommendations?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:32:21AM -0500, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> 
> > So basically I'm looking for something that has great 2D AND 3D
> > performance... most of the whizbang gaming features if not all of them,
> > but I don't want to buy more card than I can use certainly.  Dual heads
> > and great features for doing graphic work is not necessary.  I'm going
> > for pure games here... but I'd like to be able to run X if possible.
> > I'm basically looking to max out the graphics in this system.  Sridhar
> > mentions 3DLabs... those are the Oxygen boards right?   I always thought
> > those were great, but again I'd like to get the highest performance game
> > card I can get for a dual Pro PCI.  This system also has a 10K SCSI UW
> > drive in it and is really a lot faster than any of the other Pro's I've
> > run.  PR440FX Intel board.  The Venus board I had for my single Pro 256
> > ran Windows 2K like a dog... this machine is quite fast on the otherhand.
> 
> Get a used Oxygen.  The older Oxygen cards were designed for systems that
> were out when they came out, and they usually have a bit more horespower
> under the hood, because they were designed for the video/animation market.

Err, what do you have to do to get an Oxygen doing OpenGL under FreeBSD?

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Joshua D. Boyd