[ale] AGP video cards

[Christopher S. Adams]

well...for the best of both worlds, i suggest a riva tnt
it does games AND 2d very well, and is supported by XFree
the price should drop soon when the tnt2 comes out

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Dave Brooks wrote:

> Speaking of AGP, I was toying with the idea of throwing an AGP card in
> mine that had >= 8MB of video RAM.  I saw a few ATi xpert at play cards
> that looked pleasing pricewise.  Does anyone know how these behave under
> XFree?  I'm not interested in any of the VooDoo stuff because I don't
> play games that often (although, I do every now and again), therefore I
> dont see a point in spending the extra bucks on one.  Does anyone have
> any suggestions?
> 
> Regards,
> Dave B.
> db at trusted.net
> 
> 
> Nick Lucent wrote:
> > 
> > y
> > On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 cfowler at avana.net wrote:
> > 
> > agp is a different kind of bus, agp is a dedicated video bus running at
> > 66mhz meaning its much faster, whereas pci is a shared bus that only runs
> > at 33 mhz
> > 
> > >
> > > What is the difference between and AGP and PCI video card?
> > >
> > > I've been looking for a sub $500 Linux workstation and most use
> > > AGP cards.  ?Has anyone found a sub $500 workstation that has
> > > 1024x768 24bit.  good sound and decent HDD space and ram?  I
> > > found one that had almost all but the monitor but I need at least
> > > 1024x768 16million colors.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
> 
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