[SunRescue] NetBSD v. Linux v. Solaris 2.51

[Cyrus M. Reed]

I'll second that.  AGP can be nice, but really PCI is just fine for most
things.  Matrox has made some really nice 2D cards in the past (like the
Millenium I/II).  I've even seen in a few places that AGP doesn't give
that much of a performance increase - it's more of a marketing thing.  I'm
not sure how true that is, but I'd bet that had a hand in it.

-Cyrus

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:29:41PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > In fact if you're at all interested in graphics, and colour graphics to
> > be specific, any random desktop PC with a PCI or AGP bus, and a decent
> > graphics card in it with enough RAM, is going to blow the doors off
> > anything you could possibly dream of doing even on an SS2, let alone an
> > SS1+, even if you have only a cheap 166MHz Pentium or so.  Except for
> > the monitor you could build a decent PC for running *BSD and X for
> > around $200 or less (I just saw $40[cdn] AGP 16MB SVGA cards in one of
> > our local junk shops, and complete P166's for $150[cdn] -- the only
> > trick is finding a cheap system *with* AGP, and that's not hard either).
> 
> Unless you're a really picky hardcore 3D gamer, you dont even need AGP.
> One of my FAVORITE video cards to put in a PC is a Matrox Millenium 4mb
> PCI - I have 3 of them here for when I need a good 2D card.
> 
> In my 700Mhz AMD gaming machine, I have a 3Dfx Voodoo 3/3000 PCI card,
> and it works just fine.  
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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