[rescue] Creator 3D Series 3 Performance

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

The other thing you could do is find an Ultra 10 chassis ... they
pop up from time to time and are usually cheap cheap....

you can then move your guts over (you will need to have the Ultra-10
Riser board though... I believe I have a spare should you ever locate
a chassis and need a riser... (or at least I'm pretty sure I still have
an extra))

Then you can use UPA based frame buffers which have higher performance.

-- Curt

>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:57:12 -0500
>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Creator 3D Series 3 Performance
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>On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:51:37PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
>> Where did you get it? I am looking for a decent framebuffer, that is, if they
>> don't wost too much ;-)
>> My ultra5 currently has an 8 bit framebuffer which is quit slow. I don't know
>> if a 270 MHz is beefy enough to watch movies divx, mpeg,...[1]) but I guess I
>> need one that supports hardware scaling. I have no idea what all these Sun
>> framebuffers are capable of.
>> [1] Someone I know played those on a 200 MHz Amd-K6, wasn't exactly fluently
>
>You cant use a UPA framebuffer (C3D, etc) in an Ultra5- you'll have to go
>with a PCI-based Expert3D-Lite or one of the newer Radeon-based XVR-100s.
>
>Bill
>
>-- 
>bill bradford
>mrbill at mrbill.net
>austin, texas
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Curtis Wilbar
Hawk Mountain Networks
rescue at hawkmountain.net

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