On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Pong wrote: > .. > > was thinking of installing this into my other antique PC (Epox 6VBA -- > > VIA Apollo Pro chipset) > > which has the original AGP 1.0 slot (3.3v keyed, AGP 1x/2x only). > > it will work. AGP is only relevant when the GPU is doing mmap()'s to main > memory used as extended texture memory. but for most applications you > don't need that much texture memory (*all* linux applications, except > maybe Maya..) so you never texture offboard RAM. in which case AGP is > irrelevant. > thanks! actually, i was asking about the electrical aspect: 3.3v AGP 1.0 slot versus the common 1.5v/0.8v AGP 2.0/3.0 cards prevalent today. there are cards that will fit the slot but burn up and damage the board due to the voltage mismatch. so i had to post to several groups to get a consensus on the matter. anyway, nasubukan ko na and IT WORKED! unfortunately, the old CPU (550Mhz) proved to be the bottleneck, it did not help improve the graphics subsystem. as i discovered now, mga around 1.2Ghz processor ang kailangan to push the card to its limit. pong -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
