From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Suggestion for a FAQ Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 13:25:09 GMT
There does seem to be a lot of belief that to get good performance you need
to go and buy SCSI cards and top end video cards to get good Linux
performance. It's actually very misleading. The machine I'm typing this on
is SCSI, but it feels no different to my similarly configured home machine,
and unless you are doing a lot of heavy disk activity (lots of users, news
expire etc) you don't really notice much.
Similarly any old ET4000 card is fine for everythign I do with video. Here
I can tell the difference with an S3 card and XS3 - its hard not too. The
ET4000 is quite nice and plenty for me.
Alan