| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2000 at 20:00:11 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD Predator from eyetech |
Hello Steve
On 30-Aug-00, you wrote:
> Alan Buxey wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>>> This board is for PPC only Amigas, and it seems the A1200 at that, could
>> it
>>> be that this card plugs into the PPC's CPU local slot? (Where yer BVision
>>> goes). Surely that has more bandwidth than Zorro III?
>>
>> nope. even the 'super local PPC -> BVision' interface gets just over 21MB/s
>
> Allegedly it`s only this low because of the PCI bridge chip being poor....tho`
> you are quite right that AGP is way beyond it`s limits. Best stick to usefull
> PCI. The only use of AGP I can think of is that PCI gfx card are as rare as
> rare things..
Hardly, I can see a veritable ton of PCI S3 Virge, ATI Rage, nVidia TNT and TNT2
and 3dfx cards around here. All nicely priced as well, sometimes much cheaper
than their AGP counterparts.
The new Intel 815E chipset has a graphics chip built in, and they don't make no
odds about it sucking up the AGP capabilities of the motherboard (i.e. there is
no AGP slot). Replacing the gfx card means using a PCI card. And guess what?
ELSA announced (released?) a GeForce2 PCI card not long back..
You'll go to the ball, Cinders, just don't expect it to be 'fast' ;)
Thanks
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