[geeks] FS: SGI Indigo2

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Thu Apr 4 20:42:42 CST 2002


>On April 4, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>>  > Indigo2, 192meg, R4400SC @ 150 (I think), Extreme graphics; teal
>>  > case with teal "tower stands".  $100?  Email if interested.  It
>>  > has a drive sled but no HD installed; I might be able to come up
>>  > with a 4G one.
>>
>>  What breed of SCSI drive does this beast take?  (And is Extreme graphics
>>  "good"?)
>
>   It takes ordinary 50-pin SCSI.  Extreme is good...it's the top of the
>lower of the two lines of I^2 video systems; it's the best you can get
>without going to Impact.  8 GEs, ~960MFLOPS if memory serves.  A very
>solid performer.  No hardware texturing, however, which means Josh
>will whine.  Just don't let him use it. ;)

~256 MFLOPS.  960 is Max IMPACT.  Still not bad for an aplication 
that puts demands on geometry.  The software texturing is *ASS* slow 
but it just zooms along when textures are out of the picture.

daniel
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