RE: Best Video Card

["Peter Petrakis" <voodoo alphadriven org>]

> About the only caveat that I can think of for the voodoo3 (as I use it 
> myself) is the
> hardware limitation of only supportting DRI in 16bpp mode

That's a good point. I forgot about that. Also in normal
X it only allows 24bpp mode max, No 32bpp. No big deal. 

I run mine at 16bpp and since I'm using E as a wm, imlib
does such a good job downsampling the jpegs I use as backgrounds
that I can barely tell the difference between 24bpp and 16bpp.
 
> Outside of that, It's a good choice even though they're becoming 
> increasingly hard
>  to find in retail stores,.. though you could pick one off ebay for 
> peanuts I suspect.

I can find Voodoo3 2000 PCI on price watch for $50.

> As for Radion, can't comment, I can only find the card in AGP format 8/
 
Plenty of those on pw as well, search for "radeon pci" .

Peter
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