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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: What is the best VGA card for 386BSD???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.093138.14545@netcom.com>
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- References: <colin.722054325@marsh> <RICH.92Nov18133928@omicron.Rice.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:31:38 GMT
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- In article <RICH.92Nov18133928@omicron.Rice.edu> Rich@rice.edu writes:
- >In article <colin.722054325@marsh> colin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes:
- > Hi,
- > My TVGA card neads replacing, and as I plan an running 386BSD most of
- > the time (with X) I was wondering which is the best card I could replace it
- > with.
- >
- > What is "the best" card, and what is "the best value for money" card?
- > Unfortunatly I don't have an unlimited money supply, and worst of all it will
- > be my money that I will be spending :-)
- >
- >The best may be the Actix S3 based card Amancio has mentioned. The S3
- >port is new and other than Actix I haven't heard anyone mention
- >various cards work. Diamond doesn't of course.
- >
- XS3 has been known to work with many S3 based cards including an
- S3 local bus card. I have tested XS3 with Orchid's Farenheit 1280
- and Actix's GraphicEngine. XS3 will not work with programmable
- clock synthetizers such as found with in the Diamond Stealth.
-
-
- So far only one clone card has been reported that it didn't
- work with XS3 and probably the reason is because it used
- a programmable clock synthetizer.
-
- S3 chipsets come basically in three flavors:
- (1) 911 slowest chipset
- (2) 924
- (3) 801 fastest chipset
-
- To put things in perspective, Jon Tomb's Actix 911 clocked in
- at 38k xstones and his new F1280 clocked in at 48k xstones.
-
- Orchid has an F1280 model with sells for $198 or less.
-
- Overall performance of the 801 is about %50 faster than a 924.
- I am putting the finall touches for the 801 server and it should be
- ready in a day or so.
-
- The 801 should be cheaper than a 911 or 924.
-
- So far it is not clear that a local bus S3 card is faster than
- an ISA S3 card.
-
- Here are my xbench results so far for my S3 801 server:
-
- TOTAL 81455 lineStones
- TOTAL 59263 fillStones
- TOTAL expected 50898 blitStones
- TOTAL 2018667 arcStones
- TOTAL 90625 textStones
- TOTAL 97647 complexStones
- TOTAL expected 74952 xStones
-
- I didn't run all the tests due to not having a large swap space.
-
- When I am done I expect to be 3 times faster than a sun
- workstation IPC without a GX. The IPC's clock in at 24k xstones.
-
-
-
- I have tested my server under xview, gwm and twm, and I have not
- seen any problems. Additionally, XS3 is known to work with Motif.
-
- We fixed ALL reported problems with XS3.
- One last note, XS3-0.2a passed all x11perf tests without crashing
- and is about %20 faster on overall performance than XS3-0.1.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Amancio Hasty
-
- >I use an ET4000 card since that is what is officially supported by
- >XFree86 currently. In the ET4000 cards, the best value for you money
- >is problably an off brand with 1Mb memory. Compu-Tek Int'l at
- >214-994-0190 has a Tseng ET4000 with 1MB for $95. Rich
- >
- > Colin.
- > --
- > Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
- >
- > "Knowledge is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find them."
- > -anon.
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