| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 18:09:37 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
hi,
> When do you think there will be one, and btw: why the heck do Met@box use
> G3, that pile of slow shit, G4... now that's better but not good enough...
> A G4 macintosh ain't really fast, but maybe that's just because of the
> weird OS..
G3 slow? G4 aint really fast? have you actually used those CPUs with a
half-decent Operating system? ;-)
> And prolly if ever comes out, cost like hell and be outdated... just like
> the BVision, ooooooooooold chip already when they started planning it...
i thought they'd planned on using an ATI Rage128 on the Met@Box addon ?
> Well, powerc has told me they will ship the Mediator, I bought, to me within
> the two first weeks of August, which have just ended, so if they were right
> (It's Amiga we're talking about, so I dont think they were right. I have
> *never* seen a scedule that was followed for Amiga Hardware) I should get
> it one of the next days...
when these cmpanies state a date, add at least 2 months onto it!
> Voodoo 3 is slow and expensive... What about Voodoo 5, it rocks, but it cost
> something like £500
likewise, slow and expensive? Sorry, but it *way* outperforms the current
Amiga gfx cards AND costs less than half what the current gfx cards cost.
Voodoo5 dual-GPU version costs around 250 ukp
> I think a TNT2 thingie will be more worth the money. But I'm just guessing..
TNT2's are quite nice chips...always understated. Of course, a GeForce2 is
very nice...but we're not limited to just PCI gfx cards (no AGP for us
guys!) but also the amount of memory on them. NO! I know how much the
Mediator can handle, however, the PCI specs were done years ago. Almost all
old PC motherboards cannot take PCI gfx cards with more than 16Mb on
them...they cant drive the memory. so look at 16Mb gfx as the most. anyway,
I dont expect any of us to complain at being limited to just 16Mb gfx
memory! ;-)
alan