[SunRescue] SGI Indigo 2 Impact or Extreme?

[Bjrn Ramqvist]

James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> > And oh yes, I'd probably still take an Indigo 2 over the O2, just
> > because of the texture support.
> 
> And Max also outperforms CRM for T&L.  The O2 will still shine if you give
> it big enough textures or do lots of glCopyPixels() calls (which are
> unbelievably fast on the O2 due to the UMA).

And that's where the O2 shines over almost anything I've seen so far.
I've read about this "magic", and it's sure nice to watch it in action.
But wasn't that the target market for the O2? ("video-machine")

> > I'd take an O2 over an Indigo 2 just because of the (much) lesser noise,
> > far better I/O and somewhat PCI-support.
> 
> It is a neat box.  I like the imposing look of the purple I2 better
> myself.

I myself like the teal ones...

	/Regards, Bjorn