[geeks] FS: SGI Indigo2

[Dave McGuire]

On April 4, Big Endian wrote:
> >>  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 

  Ahh yes, I stand corrected.

> that puts demands on geometry.  The software texturing is *ASS* slow 
> but it just zooms along when textures are out of the picture.

  Yes.  The geom performance is rather nice with the Extreme.

    -Dave

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