Re: Video Cards

[donaldlf cs rose-hulman edu]

Hello,
  I just had to add my 2 cent's worth.
For 2D performance you cannont go wrong with the Matrox Millenium II
For 3D performance The only thing I have come up with is:
   Permedia -3 Create   http://www.3dlabs.com
  with open GL drivers from metro link  http://www.metrolink.com

The issue is that all of the high end graphic cards (GLINT based) top
out at around 90 Millions pixels while a TNT2 tops out at 300 Million.
The difference is the TNT-2 is HIGHLY dependent on cpu speed while
GLINT is a more CPU independent. The second teir choice is a Matrox
G200 board. The only ceaveat is Matrox only released part of the
programming spec for the G200. (Consider how old the board is.....)
So I would (I am planning myself to buy ) a Permedia -3 board when
they start shipping. either 2Q99 or 3Q99. If matrox would release all
of the G400 specs or someone released a commercial OPEN-GL driver I
would more than not buy a G400 but I don't see this happening any time
soon.

The way I seeit the next really good option is to get Metrolink to
support multiple boards and tie together 3 GLINT or etherland Sutherland
boards giving a 300 million speed. Of corse this would eat 3 pci slots.
At this point I refer you to http://www.magma.com for extra PCI slots.

So to sum it up. Your options are limited.

Leslie DOnaldson

Note: 3Dlabs also provides NT/Alpha drivers. cool.

In article <3756e06b.1305487@news.demon.co.uk>,
  thackray@thackray.demon.co.uk wrote:


> Agreed ! The Matrox Millenium II, works with virtually any O/S, on any

> >> such. I want descent graphics capabilities on this, at least what I
> >> get out of my ATI Mach 64 on my P90 if not more.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the help!
> >>
> >>         -Aravind
>
>