[SunRescue] The Great Ultra5/10 Cheap ATI FB Search

[Kurt Huhn]

I am *Extremely* pleased witht he Permedia2 based board (Fire GL 1000 Pro)
in my Compaq workstation - running NT 4.  I assume that performance under
Solaris (on Sun hardware) would be similar.  If so, keep your PGX32.  As far
as I know, for GL based apps, nothing short of a top-of-line Elsa card could
beat the Permedia2 in the latter half of 1998 and the beginning of 1999.
I'm sure there's something faster now, like the Permedia3 if it exists, but
the experiences  I've had with my Diamond card are very good.

There are versions with 4 and 8 MB onboard (not upgradeable, unfortunately).

Kurt



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] The Great Ultra5/10 Cheap ATI FB Search


>On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 09:24:44PM -0800, Pres. Dan Jameyson wrote:
>> I tried some of the "newer" ATI Rage3d-pro based cards again, and they
>> really just don't work. What does work, and happens to be a nice cheap
>> solution to us ultra 5/10 folks that want extra 24b 1024x768+ heads, are
>> the ATI Expert at Work PCI cards made around 1998. They are 4mb cards
>> (there is an upgrade module to 8mb, but I bet that's nearly impossible
>> to find these days). Hardware wise, it's almost identical to the onboard
>> 24b fb shipped on the newer ultra 5. I'm using one right now, and I'm
>> very happy with it - super value.
>> If anyone has any of these, we would like (ahem, ***NEED***) a couple.
>> I'd also consider some of the certified 3rd party fbs, but unless I hear
>> otherwise, I can only trust what I know works.
>> Call me a sucker for surrounding myself with CRT, but I'm going for the
>> full on Quadraclops little workstation ;)
>> If I get some sort of tumor, then we'll all know why...
>> Dan
>
>Anybody know if the ATI chipsets are *faster* than the Permedia 2 chipsets?
>I've got a PGX32 in this machine (genuine Sun), but would swap it for a
>4mb ATI card if the ATI card is any faster....
>
>Bill
>
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