| From: | Stian Str�m |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 15:21:56 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
>> 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?
when I get money, I'll jump on anything ;)
>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 ;-)
True. but PCI isn't all that kewl...
>> 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.
ok, but I still think it was a bad idea ;)
>> 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 ;-)
hum... slowly...
>..oh! and some of us dont like the idea of having to upgrade every few
months!
hehe, the Amiga is nice in the way that when you bought it, you
had a computer that could compete with other platforms all the
way up til today. But the problem is that the PC is catching
in... a 1 GHz PC can almost compete with my 040 25MHz now ;)
A system that is designed to be up-to-date for a long time is a good
thing, but it shouldn't be unpossible to get anything better for
3 years... I usually double the CPU speed on my PC once per year,
and I would do the same with the miggy if I could.
It's not a mather of having to upgrade every month, it's a
mather of wanting...
>> 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-)
hm... well, I dunno... I have always thought AmigaOS is quite
easy to learn... and it's possible to make it look and feel
the way we want it to...
Windows is pretty much standardized in all ways, and not much can
be configured... ;/
>> 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.
oki, I'm absolutly no Linux expert... couldn't figure out
anything to use it for yet, so I removed it after testing it for
a while... 1.2gb is quite painfull ;)
>> 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.
yeah, I know that to... nothing I regret more than buying the 040
version... I had ordered a 060 version, but I didn't think it
would mather to much with the 68k anymore when I had the PPC.
Since there was a lack of 060s at the time I ordered a 040
version instead to get it quicker...
Ag...