[SunRescue] Creator 2D/PCI card in Ultra 5?

[Chris Drelich]

David Murphy wrote:
> 
> Quoting <A5F46F4ED18FD211ABEE00105AC6CF077F7E68 at email.cu-portland.edu>
> by Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu>:
> > PCI is ok, but grapics demands exceptionally high bandwidth, and the
> > slots on those riser card diagrams all look to be 32-bit. The PeeCee
> > world has forsaken PCI as a graphics device, and everything new is
> > AGP. I'm assuming that pretty much anybody who wants really good
> > graphics for a Sun goes UPA.
> 
> Random fact - AGP is just 66MHz PCI with some add-on bits for storing
> textures in host memory, etc.
> 

Yes, this is why AGP is generally only used for Graphics cards and only by
Quake kids and those who don't know better, its (hopefully) never found on
servers.  It sucks resources from the host system.  Though this may make the
card faster, it makes the system slower, and who wants this unknown factor in a
server or really any system?  So you only want AGP if you need the latest
graphics rendering capabilities and don't care about straing on your system(Re:
you do nothing but play games).
Chris