[geeks] OSX is going to ruin my life

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:15:34PM -0500, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > >  Gods, I wish I had about #1,200 - I'd *love* to buy a G4 or similar.
> > > Instead, I'm stuck with this 1.4Ghz Athlon, 512MB DDR memory, 2 monitors
> > > and 2 kick-ass 3D (OK, I'm a gamer, right?) graphics cards :P
> >
> > How kick-ass can they be if you use them for games?  In my experience, any
> > graphics card vaguely approaching kick-ass is generally a PIA with 3D video
> > games.  Sure, the Wildcat line was nice with quake3, but it was real buggy
> > with half-life and UT.  And don't get me started on the fireGL x000 cards
> > (which is the same 3D chipset as the AG-10E card, I think).
> 
> The IBM RGB5XXVV series does fine on games.  They top out at 4.5 GFLOPS.

Do you have links on that card?

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Joshua D. Boyd