Daniel J. Frasnelli (dfrasnel@alphalinux.org)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:43:30 -0400
> I was one of the ones that purchased the $250 164SX boards and now I'm
> looking for a decent, but cheap video card. I know the Matrox Mill II were
> popular, but I don't see them listed forsale anymore. Is one of their other
> cards the same now, or as good?
Well, you've asked a pretty open-ended question. More
than likely everyone on the list has their own opinion of what's hot and
what's not.
For what it's worth, I have a Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro with
8M in my PWS 500a. It runs beautifully at 8M in my PWS 500a. It runs beautifully at 1024x768@32bpp (85hz refresh
on my 19" monitor). One additional advantage is that the hardware-accel
OpenGL server from Xi will support the Permedia2 (and Permedia3 when it
comes out, I imagine). To the best of my knowledge, none of the Matrox
cards provide native OpenGL support - as I understand, they require
GL->Direct3D wrappers.
It all really depends on what your application is. Graphics are
not a big part of what I do with my system, although it is nice to know the
capability is there. Let's face it, detailed graphics at high resolutions and
high colour depth can be pretty - and the $120 I spent on the FireGL Pro
are well worth it, from that perspective.
Of course, all this is in my humble opinion :)
Dan
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