[SunHELP] U5 graphics

[brian]

> expensive video card, however ($300 from sunstore,
> and $200 on the net). Does anyone know if there
> is some 3rd party card that will work with this
> machine (and Solaris 8) that I could use, or a
> place where a PGX32 could be had for a little less

i got one off ebay for $150 and have seen them go for $125...

>
> I can not see paying $200 for an 8meg framebuffer.
> I know that real video cards cost a lot (Oxygen or
> Synergy for instance) but this PGX32 is based on
> an ATI chipset that is really not expensive.

yeah it really irks me that they are so bad about rebranding stuff and cranking the price
up...  pgx32 is not all that great performance-wise either.

-brian