Okay, I've decided to get a new video card and have narrowed it down to a ATI Radeon of some sort. The question is, which one? I see the 64MB DDR version for $150, but I hear the latest 8500 (also with 64MB of DDR) is faster than the GForce3 (at least in windows) for $200. $150 is really close to the top of what I would like to pay, but if the 8500 has more than twice the performance (which is what I hear on the windows side) then maybe it's worth it. The benchmarks out there are sparse, and are done with windows, so I would like to hear any experiences from the users on this list. QuakeIIIA FPS would be a nice benchmark if anyone can ;). Thanks! -- Nick Webb http://www.uidaho.edu/~nickw/
--- Nick Webb <nickw@uidaho.edu> wrote:
Okay, I've decided to get a new video card and have narrowed it down to a ATI Radeon of some sort. The question is, which one?
An excellent choice, assuming you have an Intel-chipset motherboard! I'll not get into compatibility issues, as many of them have indeed disappeared with the maturing of DRI. If I were to ask this question, I'd first hit the DRI mail archives at: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=387 Somebody may have already done the research for you. I'm sure that the Radeon 8500 will work in 2D, but 3D may be an entirely different issue. The older DDR model is definitely a safer bet, but the 8500 may work beautifully. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
** Reply to message from Nick Webb <nickw@uidaho.edu> on Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:07:51 -0800 # Okay, I've decided to get a new video card and have narrowed it down to a ATI # Radeon of some sort. The question is, which one? I see the 64MB DDR version # for $150, but I hear the latest 8500 (also with 64MB of DDR) is faster than the # GForce3 (at least in windows) for $200. $150 is really close to the top of what # I would like to pay, but if the 8500 has more than twice the performance (which # is what I hear on the windows side) then maybe it's worth it. The benchmarks # out there are sparse, and are done with windows, so I would like to hear any # experiences from the users on this list. QuakeIIIA FPS would be a nice # benchmark if anyone can ;). I just bought a 7500 AGP with 64Mb DDR and a TV Wonder. After 3 days of no luck, it goes back tomorrow. SuSE hardware db says that Radeon QD, QE, QR models,etc are problematic. That is an understatement. The only thing I got out of this card was console output--white on black. Anything to do with X was a no-go. Sax2 will not run in a resolution small enough to see the whole screen to configure it. It is not listed in the db under xf86config4. I manually wrote a /etc/X11/XF86Config file, using the SaX2 file for my Xpert 2000 r128 card. I did this to get TV, DVD, etc, but it will not be with this card. I got a list of ATI cards that are supposed to work under linux at linuxvideo.org/gatos, also the ones at suse.com's hardware db. Gool luck. Ed Harrison, broadcasting on ----/ / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ by SuSE(7.2), Kernel 2.4.13, X 4.1 or Windows98 (running in vmware 3.0beta for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.21b with IBM JDK 1.3.0
My Radeon 64M DDR works excellent under SuSE. -----Original Message----- From: Ed Harrison [mailto:ed.tman@verizon.net] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 2:23 PM To: Nick Webb; SuSE Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] Which Radeon ** Reply to message from Nick Webb <nickw@uidaho.edu> on Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:07:51 -0800 # Okay, I've decided to get a new video card and have narrowed it down to a ATI # Radeon of some sort. The question is, which one? I see the 64MB DDR version # for $150, but I hear the latest 8500 (also with 64MB of DDR) is faster than the # GForce3 (at least in windows) for $200. $150 is really close to the top of what # I would like to pay, but if the 8500 has more than twice the performance (which # is what I hear on the windows side) then maybe it's worth it. The benchmarks # out there are sparse, and are done with windows, so I would like to hear any # experiences from the users on this list. QuakeIIIA FPS would be a nice # benchmark if anyone can ;). I just bought a 7500 AGP with 64Mb DDR and a TV Wonder. After 3 days of no luck, it goes back tomorrow. SuSE hardware db says that Radeon QD, QE, QR models,etc are problematic. That is an understatement. The only thing I got out of this card was console output--white on black. Anything to do with X was a no-go. Sax2 will not run in a resolution small enough to see the whole screen to configure it. It is not listed in the db under xf86config4. I manually wrote a /etc/X11/XF86Config file, using the SaX2 file for my Xpert 2000 r128 card. I did this to get TV, DVD, etc, but it will not be with this card. I got a list of ATI cards that are supposed to work under linux at linuxvideo.org/gatos, also the ones at suse.com's hardware db. Gool luck. Ed Harrison, broadcasting on ----/ / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ by SuSE(7.2), Kernel 2.4.13, X 4.1 or Windows98 (running in vmware 3.0beta for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.21b with IBM JDK 1.3.0 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
** Reply to message from "W.D.McKinney" <deem@wdm.com> on Sun, 4 Nov 2001 15:17:40 -0900 # My Radeon 64M DDR works excellent under SuSE. I am running with X 4.1.0. If you are using X4.1, would you mind terribly sending me your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. I would like to see how sax2 sets it up. Ed Harrison, broadcasting on ----/ / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ by SuSE(7.2), Kernel 2.4.13, X 4.1 or Windows98 (running in vmware 3.0beta for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.21b with IBM JDK 1.3.0
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