hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de
Date: 09/29/92


From: hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de
Subject: Re: SPEED comparisons of ET4000 cards.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:22:41 GMT

In article <KETIL.92Sep28212034@spurv.ii.uib.no> ketil@ii.uib.no writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.055653.5428@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> feoh@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Patti) writes:
>
> I would consider buying an ATI Ultra as I think performance
> is better due to the built in Blitter, etc, however relatively
> flawless Xwindows operation is my main goal (aside from the
> animation I mentioned above) so unless 8514 support has been
> integrated into the server or at least stabilized I'll stick with
> an ET4000.
>
>Yeah, this one did well in the test. It also has built in
>anti-aliasing, which would be nice. I think there is a 8514 X11, but
>I don't know for sure.

These cards are great! But if you've got a crappy monitor don't bother (but
that applies to all hi res cards). The X11 8514 server exists and works very
nicely thank you. I've been using it for 3 weeks now and have had no problems
with it.

Bye.

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