Thanks for the added info about cards.
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Nikhil Shankar wrote:
> hrishi's a game maniac, all he cares about is better fps. but for real number
>crunching rendering, u
> better go for an SGI. i think there do exist SGIs with SCSI drives... but if u still
>want to run on a
I'm not arguing with you, however we do have an assortment of SGI machines
(one Origin2000 (the stuff that SGI uses to make supercomputers) (4
processors, 780MB RAM), one Octane (belongs to SGI's server class
machines), five O2 (the latest in SGI's range of high end graphics
workstations)).
I find that number crunching and disk read write is generally faster on my
AMD-K63-400/64MB/Seagate IDE HDD at 5200RPM and certainly much faster on
this PIII-600/256MB/Quantum IDE HDD (tuned with hdparm). I tried putting
XFree86-4.0 (had to remove it since it broke default windowmanager
configurations) and found the graphics (visual comparison with SGI demo
CD) to be just a slight bit slower than the SGI O2 (I have a NVidia RIVA
TNT2 8MB card). The O2 costs 4.5 lakhs.
In comparison the Apple G4 and G3 (we have one of each and both cost less
than 2 lakhs each with DVD, ATI Rage Pro 16MB, SCSI HDD etc) outperform
the SGI by a wide margin (it leaves the SGI in the dust, so to say) (I'm
wondering whether a mac with linux will be better for graphics work).
Everyone here has finished off with SGI systems (final touches kindly by
Tata Elxsi who take especially long to respond, being the only authorised
SGI center in this place, ie. SGI USA will not deal with you directly).
I am also interested in finding out about high end graphics performance on
the SUN. If anyone has any Linux/PowerPC experiences or any other
suggestions about (below 1.5 lakhs) graphics workstations (with/without
Windows) kindly let me know.
Thanks,
Indraneel
(PS: one more RedHat machine came up today (excuse: there's some
software which run only on Linux) ;-)
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