Re: Best Video Card

[Linus Gasser <ineiti gmx net>]

On Friday 08 February 2002 05:15, you wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 04:21:36PM -0500, Peter Petrakis wrote:
> > Also in normal
> > X it only allows 24bpp mode max, No 32bpp. No big deal.
>
> I do not think (somebody correct me if I am mistaken) that there are
> cards for which 24 and 32 bit depth modes are really different.  These
> are just different video memory mappings.  In any case close to 17
> millions of different collors is likely a bit more that your monitor can
> show anyway. :-)
As far as I understood it, 32bits don't give more colors. It's just much more 
easy to write things to the video-memory, as you don't have to take care on 
this 3-byte boundary (for 24bits). So it's supposed to be a bit faster. But 
now that mostly all cards are accelerated, I don't think this makes this big 
a difference.

Ineiti