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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!glukr!info.elvisti.kiev.ua!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: Re: Reasonably good video card supported by FreeBSD X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: news@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (News Subsystem) Organization: ElVisti Information center Message-ID: <DtCLHC.HG6@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <4pnqg7$pfg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4pnqjp$pfg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <Dt53ou.rM@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> <4q6hf5$rsv@hops.entertain.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:34:24 GMT Lines: 55 Darryl Watson (dwatson@abwam.com) wrote: : > : > Just any S3 868 -based one, but I doubt it would be as good as Matrox. : > : It depends on what you define as 'good'. : Do you mean lightning performance, or ease of installation, or responsive : tech support, cross-OS compatibility, or excellent drivers? Step by step: lightning performance, or Reasonable performance. With 2 or 4 Mb of DRAM S3 868 is very nice, VRAM is even better. That's my personal opinion, I didn't do any reasonable benchmarking. ease of installation, or Yes, definitely. You take PCI board and plug it in, then it plain works, that's all I want from it. responsive tech support, Never used any, so I don't know. :) cross-OS compatibility, Yes. S3 868 is supported everywhere. or excellent drivers? Probably yes, too. Never seen any driver problems with it -- can't say this about ATI Mach, Trident, Cirrus Logic cards. : I usually recommend the #9 cards in various flavors, but mostly because : I like ease of installation, cross-OS compatibility, and price. I think that S3 868 is a bit cheaper (at least here) and the performance difference isn't too big. But YMMV, of course. BTW do you have any numbers to compare the two? : I am willing to give up a 5-10% difference in performance in favor of : the above factors. -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.