[SunRescue] Creator 2D/PCI card in Ultra 5?

[David Murphy]

Quoting <38D774D8.21E01F94 at interport.net>
by Chris Drelich <hyena at interport.net>:

> > Random fact - AGP is just 66MHz PCI with some add-on bits for
> > storing textures in host memory, etc.

> Yes, this is why AGP is generally only used for Graphics cards and
> only by Quake kids and those who don't know better, its (hopefully)
> never found on servers. It sucks resources from the host system.
> Though this may make the card faster, it makes the system slower,
> and who wants this unknown factor in a server or really any system?

Really? I'm not sure I understand how an empty AGP slot, or one with a
largely idle graphics card sitting in text mode is more of a drain on
a system than, say, an empty 66MHz PCI slot, but I'm happy to be clued
in...

> So you only want AGP if you need the latest graphics rendering
> capabilities and don't care about straing on your system(Re: you do
> nothing but play games).

Personally, the most machine-stressfull thing I do on my workstation
is play games 8) Real work is 99.99% typing in xterms.

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