[geeks] Recommendations?

[Andrew Weiss]

On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 01:15 AM, Chris Byrne wrote:

> Well you can pick up a really nice GeForce 2 MX based board for almost
> nothing these days, potentially with video in/out and multiple monitor
> support, the same goes for GeForce3 and now GeForce 4 if you want even 
> more
> features (for which you spend even more money). Nvidia offers Linux 
> drivers
> if you don't mind closed source, and I know from experience that these
> boards can be made to work in X (or other native GUI) with Linux, 
> Solaris
> X86, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOs R5, and all windows since 95. Theres no 
> point in
> going for one of the full on GeForce cards bacause your CPU wont be 
> able to
> come close to using them. THe MX's dont give up anything in image 
> quality
> and have the smae of better extra features.
>
So basically I'm looking for something that has great 2D AND 3D 
performance... most of the whizbang gaming features if not all of them, 
but I don't want to buy more card than I can use certainly.  Dual heads 
and great features for doing graphic work is not necessary.  I'm going 
for pure games here... but I'd like to be able to run X if possible.  
I'm basically looking to max out the graphics in this system.  Sridhar 
mentions 3DLabs... those are the Oxygen boards right?   I always thought 
those were great, but again I'd like to get the highest performance game 
card I can get for a dual Pro PCI.  This system also has a 10K SCSI UW 
drive in it and is really a lot faster than any of the other Pro's I've 
run.  PR440FX Intel board.  The Venus board I had for my single Pro 256 
ran Windows 2K like a dog... this machine is quite fast on the otherhand.

Andrew