On Wed, 15 May 2002 09:28:18 +0100 Alastair Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 15 May 2002 6:18 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > How good are the integrated devices on these boards, compared to the > > ones you can buy as add-in PCI cards? Tom's reviews never seem to > > give them much attention. How do they perform? Do they tax the CPU > > any more than a standalone card would? I am interested in getting a > > board with integrated sound and ethernet. I would like the board to > > have at least 4 IDE interfaces (not channels) so I can give an > > entire interface to each of my devices. How well do the features of > > these boards work in Linux? > > As mentioned somewhere else, my borrowed machine has an Intel > 815E-based motherboard with integrated sound, video and Ethernet. 8.2 > installed no problem and the inteegrated parts were identified as: > > Ethernet: 3Com Corporation 3C905-TX > > Sound: Intel Corp 820 (Camino 2) Chipset AC97 Audio Controller > > Video: Intel Corp 815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] > > There is no obvious extra CPU load and the first two work fine; the > third is a problem, as there are artifacts and slight breaking-up when > really driving things. However, there's an AGP 2x slot supplied and > I'll be using it soon :) Actually on mine I've noticed certian programs break it up... like sylphheds menu bar. One point to note. Running glxgears I'm getting 3175 root 16 0 3020 3008 1688 R 72.6 0.7 1:00 glxgears out of top where the 72.6 is the cpu load percentage. And the frame rate is 694 frames in 5.0 seconds = 138.800 FPS 697 frames in 5.0 seconds = 139.400 FPS 699 frames in 5.0 seconds = 139.800 FPS 698 frames in 5.0 seconds = 139.600 FPS 700 frames in 5.0 seconds = 140.000 FPS 703 frames in 5.0 seconds = 140.600 FPS Alhtough it does seem to nice around it it's still a heavy cpu user. James > > Alastair > - -- > Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) > http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE84hwnCv59vFiSU4YRAggKAJ9KCSNZMRkeNP41s8FsrQD9FxCYdgCgyb1a > 38JrsuJSK0/a7lAap+36TzU= > =7Khw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
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