On Saturday 18 November 2000 18:57, you wrote:

> > On Saturday 18 November 2000 02:30 pm, Brent Timmer wrote:
> > stupid question, but what is gears?
>
>    It's prob'ly on your menus as 'Mesa gears', but a better way to run
> it is from a term.  just type 'gears'   That way you'll see the frames
> per second (fps) that your system is capable of in the term as gears
> spin in a window.  It's sort'a kind'a a benchmark and/or an indication
> if 3d acceleration is setup/workin.  It's about as good a BM as
> bogomips, but it will let you know if 3d is workin ;)  I get 120 fps
> with a old pci Voodoo3, I've heard newer Nvidia and ATI cards get 1000
> fps :)

I just tried that out with a geforce2, LM 7.2, and PIII overclocked to 910, 
and I got 2455.000 FPS.  ;)

-- Stephen

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