On Thu, 10 May 2007, Tom Evans wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:49 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than 1/8 to
1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the system RAM,
which means you have less overall system RAM to use for app
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:23:17PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:49 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than 1/8 to
> > 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the system RAM,
> > which means you have less
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:49 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than 1/8 to
> 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the system RAM,
> which means you have less overall system RAM to use for apps.
>
> -Garrett
Er? Whilst I agr
Garrett Cooper writes:
> A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than
> 1/8 to 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the
> system RAM, which means you have less overall system RAM to use
> for apps.
Is that still true? (I haven't been following thi
Robert Huff wrote:
Garrett Cooper writes:
Anyhow, getting back to the video thing at hand, if Gary was to
purchase a card he should purchase an nVidia card. It's the only
brand with OpenGL support properly enabled in Linux and
FreeBSD. 5000-6000 series would be sufficient.
Anyon
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:57:45PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:04 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
[[ ... ]]
> > purchase a card he should purchase an nVidia card. It's the only brand
> > with OpenGL support properly enabled in Linux and FreeBSD. 5000-6000
> > series
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:04 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Eric Crist wrote:
> > On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Gary,
> >>>
> >>> Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the sta
Garrett Cooper writes:
> Anyhow, getting back to the video thing at hand, if Gary was to
> purchase a card he should purchase an nVidia card. It's the only
> brand with OpenGL support properly enabled in Linux and
> FreeBSD. 5000-6000 series would be sufficient.
Anyone consider
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:04:57PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Eric Crist wrote:
[ ... ]
>
> Eric,
> That's one flavor of DVI; memory serves me correctly there were 2:
> I-DVI and some other kind (I think the one you have pictured above is
> I-DVI).
> I gave my old box t
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:21:57PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> >>
> >>Gary,
> >>
> >>Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard
> >>VGA output usually
Eric Crist wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
Gary,
Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard
VGA output usually include at least one DVI-VGA adapter, an
additional one could be
From: "Gary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 6:09 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
>On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>>
>> I asked somebody directly, but I may as well ask the entire list.
>> I'
On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
Gary,
Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard
VGA output usually include at least one DVI-VGA adapter, an
additional one could be purchased at most c
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:48:00PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:34:53PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > PS: Does anybody know of a website that 'splains VGA, SVGA,
> > EVGA, and all the rest? I've been seriously guilty of being
> > lazy; I'm fessi
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:34:53PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> PS: Does anybody know of a website that 'splains VGA, SVGA,
>EVGA, and all the rest? I've been seriously guilty of being
>lazy; I'm fessing up!
Wikipedia, believe it or not, has tons of great in
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> On May 9, 2007, at 6:09 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>
> >>I asked somebody directly, but I may as well ask the entire list.
> >>I'm looking for a video-car
On May 9, 2007, at 6:09 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
I asked somebody directly, but I may as well ask the entire list.
I'm looking for a video-card. The more recent mobo's (like the
i815) have them builti
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> I asked somebody directly, but I may as well ask the entire list.
> I'm looking for a video-card. The more recent mobo's (like the
> i815) have them builtin. My 750MHz machine uses the SRAM for
> its v-RAM.
I asked somebody directly, but I may as well ask the entire list.
I'm looking for a video-card. The more recent mobo's (like the
i815) have them builtin. My 750MHz machine uses the SRAM for
its v-RAM. My old Kayaks came with Matrox Millennium 8MB video
c
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