[rescue] I just saw this from an old SGI page... it has meslightly worried since...

[Ken Hansen]

Kurt,

If that is the Ultra 30s I saw, they had a *nice* graphics card - better 
than creators, IIRC. The Creator graphics cards are *sweet*, esp. when 
compared to SBUS TGX (more colors, higer res *and* much faster!)...

There are two kinds of UPA cards, "horizontal" and "vertical" - the U30 
(A *great* box) uses vertical, the U1/U2 uses horizontal UPA cards.

HTH, glad you like the Ultra 1,

Ken

On Saturday, January 5, 2002, at 10:52 AM, Kurt Huhn wrote:

>> PCs nowadays are monsters heat- and powerwise. The weights of the 
>> cooling
>> contraptions on modern Intel-type processors are getting close to 1 kg,
> and
>> then there are the two fans on the graphics card and one in the PSU.
>> No thank you, I'd never run one of those beasts. My next processor will
>> probably be a PPC, until then I'll be huffing along on my 68040, a
> processor
>> which in its day was supposed to have a heat problem. After all, in 
>> some
>> machines, it requires a small heat disassipation piece!
>>
>
> Which leads me to an observation about graphics capability.  In my 
> office at
> work I have an Ultra-5 and and an Ultra-1 (thanks Ken!).  The Ultra-1 
> runs
> *circles* around the Ultra-5 in terms of graphics performance - at 
> least to
> my untrained eye.  The Ultra-1 has a Creator2D, the Ultra-5 has some PCI
> based crap.
>
> I bought one of those Ultra-30s on eBay for $500+shipping.  I wonder 
> how the
> Creator3D will compare.  I might have to trade my 2D for the 3D in the 
> U-30
> :)
>
> Kurt
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Ken

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