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[alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Alex Angerhofer)]

In reply to Jon Pennington's letter who wrote on  7 Oct:
> Hi, everybody!
> 
> As per $SUBJECT, I want to explore some 3D options.  Currently, I have a
> Voodoo Banshee 16m AGP card.  It's kind of cool.  It was the only 3D-class
> card that was less than $100 US when I bought it, it didn't throw fits at me
> when I installed it, so I kept it.
> 
> My problem is that Mesa stuff just flat-out sucks.  I have a K6-III 450
> (100mhz*4.5), so I don't think it's the processor.  I say this becuase I'm
> getting nearly the same performance now (~1 frame every three seconds) that
> I was with my K6-2 350 (100mhz*3.5).  Obviously, something is wrong.
> 
> I think that I want to buy a Riva TnT or a TnT2 AGP card.  Is anyone out
> there running the above in a SuSE 6.2 system?  Which X server are you
> running (the one from SuSE or the one from nVidia)?  If you install
> viewperf, what kind of results do you get? :)  I'm starting to play with
> some 3D-intensive games now, and I want to make sure that my investments are
> solid.  Sorry, folks, but until Matrox gets their cranial-rectal inversion
> issues resolved, I'm not interested in a G400.
> 

Jon,

I run a TnT2 AGP card. It is the Elsa Synergy II. Fine piece of
hardware, probably overkill for my little self-built machine. I am
using the NVidia supplied server. AT the time I assembled the machine,
there was only 6.1 and the older xfree didn't supply the right server.
Unfortunately, I can't really tell you much about 3D benchmarking since
I haven't gotten that far yet into it. If you can give me pointers to
some objective benchmarks, perhaps I will find the time to run those in
the near future.

Best regards, Alex.


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