[ale] AGP video cards

[Dave Brooks]

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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