[linux-audio-user] newbie q: making a machine

[Jan Depner]

Cool.  I'll have to try that one at work.  At 20K a pop for the software
we can probably afford the $69.

Jan


On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 09:08, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 22 May 2003 06:39:49 -0500, Jan Depner wrote / a écrit:
> > 
> > > Why - because they are the only graphics card manufacturer
> > > with an accelerated 3D driver for Linux
> > 
> Jan,
>    The ATI Radeon series (at least 9000 and above) is accelerated and
> well supported under Linux. For $69 I got a Radeon 9000 from New Egg
> online. I get 100FPS on glxgears unaccelerated, and 2000FPS accelerated.
> 
>    I think the NVidea devices do outperform this little $69 card, but I
> like it because it has no fan, so it makes no noise and won't overheat
> when that little VGA cooling fan gets dirty in 6 months. ;-)
> 
> Mark
>