[rescue] WTB: SGI

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Eee.  Texturing is so strong on the O2, that if that is your main use,
don't be too quick to pass it up.  Personally, for some tasks (like
having 5 1.2meg layers and a bunch of sprites), 5megs of texture ram is no
where near enough. =20

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Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] Bj=F6rn Ramqvist wrote:

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> Dave McGuire wrote:
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> > On June 18, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > > I've seen an SI octane for 1195 or so, 195mhz 256 or 512meg.  Only pl=
ace
> > > the i2 beats it is textureing, and pick up a tex module for 875/2 (so=
meone
> > > was selling two brand new octane tex modules for 875, gah I need
> > > cash).  Once that is done kiss the i2 g'bye.
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> >   Nope, sorry Nick...benchmarks say otherwise.  See below.  Reprinted
> > from http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/gfxtables.html.  Granted I'm
> > comparing I2 MaxImpact with OctaneSI (the equivalent of SolidImpact)
> > but the I2 MaxImpact goes for $800 and the OctaneSI goes for $1100-1200=
=2E
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> Ofcourse, you can't compare an I^2 MaxImpact (which is maxed out with
> 1/4MB TRAM, 2GEs and 2 REs) with a pure Solid Impact Octane (which have
> no TRAM, only 1 GE and 1 RE). That's like comparing apples with pears!
> :-)
> Even if you put 1 or 4 MB TRAM on the Octane/SI, you're still limited
> with just one RE, which explain the benchmarks.
> Compare I^2 MaxImpact with Octane/MXI and you're definitly comparing
> apples with apples. :-)
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> But then again, price-wise that will blow a hole in your wallet.
> If you want to do even more studies between the systems, things like
> memory-limits, I/O-subsystems, expansion, etc, etc, should be in count
> and I'm confident that GIO-64 (Indigo2) won't last long in competition
> with XIO (Octane).
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> So, we all can be pretty sure about two things;
> If you need texture/3D: go for Indigo2 MaxImpact
> If you need anything else: go for Octane/SI
> ...right? :-)
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> /Bjorn
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