[geeks] Needed: A good sparc workstation

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Sun Mar 8 23:45:41 CDT 2009


Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Francois Dion wrote:
>> [hike]
>>> What is a good graphics card?
>> XVR-500 or XVR-600 in PCI, XVR-1000 for a machine with UPA.
> 
> FWIW, I also thought that Creator3D and Extreme3D were acceptable for  
> general use.  I haven't had the chance to try a XVR-100, but any  
> lower end card is absolutely terrible.  Yes PGX24, my eyes are  
> shooting daggers at you.

I can attest that a creator3D on a U30, using the well-known FPS Gaming
Benchmark, is good enough to play Quake on.




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