Hell, the g200 did wonders even. * Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com <Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com> [000925 13:46]: > Try going from a 2MB Diamond Stealth 2000 PCI to a > Matrox G400Max (best 2D image on the market). It's > amazingly amazing what a G400Max'll do for you. > > Nick > > > > > > lerwick at tcfreenet.org, on 09/25/2000 01:40:44 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF > cc: > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21533] pci video cards > > Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com wrote: > > > > The Trident cards have extremely poor performance all around. > > > > I doubt that they'll be able to push 1280x1024x32bpp (or 16bpp), > > and if they can, it's going to slow down your machine a bunch. > > Newer ones will, but it'll be dog slow, and the video quality will be > horrible. > > Beware the visual quality on cheapass cards. I went from an ATI Rage II+ > to a 3dfx Banshee, and the difference was night and day. At a mere > 1024x768x32x48hz interlaced, the Rage II was way blurry, but the 3dfx > was crystal clear. I didn't even know a video card could affect display > quality like that until I saw it for myself. I just thought it was the > suckass monitor I was using at that point. ;) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> #nicnac at efnet http://www.ringworld.org/ finger:dieman at destiny.ringworld.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 233 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20000925/44d55a57/attachment.pgp -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org