On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:49:47PM +0100, John McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:28:41 -0700 > "Mark Berkwitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Client boxes: > > (4) P133 with 64MB EDO, S3 Trio64v+ video cards and 10Mb/s NICs each. > > You need 2Mb of video RAM on the cards. S3s can be a bit dodgy with > XFree86-4 - you may need to download the old S3 drivers.
need 2Mb of video RAM? 1Mb video RAM gives 16 bpp at 812x608. Many monitors is not cabable of rendering more than that at a enjoyable refresh rate. Lots of old monitors can't even do 812x608 fast enough. So unless you have good monitors, that extra Mb of video RAM can only be used to give you more colors, but to say that everyone NEEDS 24 bpp, seem not approriate IMHO. > > Hub: 10Mb/s > > Hmm, 1000 Mb/s switch is better :-) A more realistic (at least more economic) approach would be 100 Mbit NICs. I think that for a limited number of clients that all would have 100 Mbit NICs, a switch would offer very minor advantages over a hub (reduced number of collisions, I think). > > Software? > > Just the games that come with Mandrake. > > Forget arcade style games like Tux Racer - nothing wrong with 'Same > Gnome' etc. For games you might actually need 1 Gb NICs though. -- Hans Ekbrand
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