| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 15 Aug 2000 at 17:37:28 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
hi,
> Ehmm... as far as I know... A machine with an overclocked ASUS GeForce2 card
> has reached over 100 fps in 1600x1200 Quake3...
yes...and next month it'll be a new card with 120 fps....so where do you
want to jump on?
compare the price of a voodoo3 to that of a GeForce2 not only a *&big*
difference, but GeForce2 needs AGP4x to get its speed... I've yet to see or
even hear of a PCI GeForce card ;-)
> Someone mentioned that the Voodoo3 was a lot faster than the Permedia2.
> and... hello? My 8MB Voodoo 1 (Rush) card was a lot faster than
> the Permedia2... It must be the slowest chip available... why they
> didn't use somtn like TNT2 that was available when they made the cards
> I don't understand... maybe it wouldn't help because of the slow
> bus speeds...
at the time of design, the PM2 chip was a lot cheaper than a TNT2.
> Imagine having AmigaOS run on a 1GHz machine, with the best
> GFX card that money could buy. And there would even be upgrades
> available every month.
umm, yes - i think we're going that route...but without the x86 architecture
thatyou very much ;-)
..oh! and some of us dont like the idea of having to upgrade every few months!
> Linux is to loose ended... everything comes either uncompiled. without
> installers... and it's a bit to complicated for most people.
?? pretty much like AmigaOS then....or maybe you dont see how many problems
people have on this list? 8-)
> It's opensourced so everyone makes they're own version of parts
> of the OS, and you don't know which is the more standard if such
> exists...
the OS is the kernel. the standard there is what Linus allows to go in. If
you choose to run a different distribution of the user-land stuff and a
different window manager, thats up to you. the big no-no of Linux currently
is its size. if you want to run everything painlessly, and be able to
compile all those source distributions without hitches, you need a full
1.2Gb installation.
> Well, I dunno... just freaking out... I need somtn new and faster than
> my 040 + 240MHz PPC. Seems that only a fraction of the PPC can be
> used because of context switching and stuff too...
you're problem is the BUS on the 040 PPC cards.
alan