Re: Monitor / Graphics Card help
Hi Im not a professional or anything but I do run both blender and gimp with gnome/sawfish and so far as my experience goes I would _really_ recommend more RAM although I believe the athlon has the 133mhz bus no? that should expediate some stuff, nevertheless Im really not satisfied with less than 196 :). The supported card issue should be checked through XFree for the latest and greatest :) . So far as monitors for a reasonable price Sony is great, very adjustable, great color, etc just figure, SGI use em so :) Anyway my 2 cents... salutations VosVuur "Cynics are made, not born." |"Great spirits have always found violent K.Marx | opposition from mediocre minds. The latter | cannot understand it when a man does not | thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices | but honestly and courageously uses his | intelligence"-Albert Einstein- ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/
Re: Monitor / Graphics Card help
Am Sonntag, 7. Januar 2001 19:08 schrieben Sie: > Hi folks, > > I'm building a new system and would like to get some opinions on hardware. This is actually OT, but since you mentioned the GIMP... :-) > This is primarily a web programmer development system. It's main tasks > will be to emulate the production environment closely, running SQL and web > servers. Part of the development task will include using Gimp and > potentially Blender on a Linux O/S. It will be dual-boot with Win for > compatibility testing purposes. It's secondary and ternary tasks will be > producing a radio show and designing CD covers. Go for a second small Windows machine for testing purposes. Your server doesn't have to be that big. Just needs a fair amount of ram, _at least_ 256 MB. > I have chosen to go with the an AMD Athlon 900MHz CPU and initially 133MHz > RAM (due to the high cost of DDR). I am unfamiliar with the FPU on an AMD > and how well it holds up to intensive floating point calculations such as > those in audio and graphics. If anyone has any thoughts please share them. I'm using a 700MHz Athlon with an Epox mainboard, 384MB ram and a Geforce256. It's really nice. :-) I run the whole LAMP setup and more. Seti runs in the background. > My main concern is with the graphics card and monitor combo. I am finding > with a 17" monitor at 1024x768 that I haven't enough screen real estate > even with multiple desktops. Any higher resolution than that and the > refresh rate is not tolerable. > > For the new system I would like a 19" monitor capable of 1600x1200 with a > fairly high refresh. I noticed KDS has a model that can handle this at Which means at least using a 22" monitor IMO. I have a 19" monitor capable of displaying 1600x1200 in 85Hz, but IMO the monitor is far too small for such a resolution. 1280x1024 is quite nice on a 19" though. A good 19" is still quite expensive... > My final request is with the graphics card. I will most likely be > choosing a 32Mb AGP 4x card, which is light years beyond the 4Mb PCI I am > using now. I'm not too concerned about this, as a card is more readily > replaceable than a monitor. What does confuse me is that most cards are > listed with their Windows requirements or Windows compatibility. I run > Linux and X windows as my main system and want to make sure that the card > I get is fully compatible with Linux. My Geforce256 runs great!!! OpenGL works fine. Ssystem does an average of 145 fps in full screen mode at 1280x1024. Quake3 has an average of 80fps at 1024x768 with _everything_ on! A friend of mine has a Geforce GTS, AFAIK that is... Works fine too. Both 3d and 2d performance are noticably better than on my machine, 170 fps with Ssytem and 100fps with Quake 3. -- Bye, Mat
Monitor / Graphics Card help
Hi folks, I'm building a new system and would like to get some opinions on hardware. This is primarily a web programmer development system. It's main tasks will be to emulate the production environment closely, running SQL and web servers. Part of the development task will include using Gimp and potentially Blender on a Linux O/S. It will be dual-boot with Win for compatibility testing purposes. It's secondary and ternary tasks will be producing a radio show and designing CD covers. I have chosen to go with the an AMD Athlon 900MHz CPU and initially 133MHz RAM (due to the high cost of DDR). I am unfamiliar with the FPU on an AMD and how well it holds up to intensive floating point calculations such as those in audio and graphics. If anyone has any thoughts please share them. My main concern is with the graphics card and monitor combo. I am finding with a 17" monitor at 1024x768 that I haven't enough screen real estate even with multiple desktops. Any higher resolution than that and the refresh rate is not tolerable. For the new system I would like a 19" monitor capable of 1600x1200 with a fairly high refresh. I noticed KDS has a model that can handle this at 85Hz and .24mm dot pitch. I love using my current systems monitor at 100Hz with 800x600 and KDE :) My problem is that I do not know how to interpret color. The monitor I have now is a Sceptre 17". When trying to use the GUM Calibration images it is non-correctable. The brightness and contrast / image temp do not allow me to calibrate it accordingly. I notice that it appears to have a fairly dark color overall. If anyone can give me some monitor opinions, or advice on how to determine if a monitor is able to be calibrated I would appreciate it. My final request is with the graphics card. I will most likely be choosing a 32Mb AGP 4x card, which is light years beyond the 4Mb PCI I am using now. I'm not too concerned about this, as a card is more readily replaceable than a monitor. What does confuse me is that most cards are listed with their Windows requirements or Windows compatibility. I run Linux and X windows as my main system and want to make sure that the card I get is fully compatible with Linux. I was looking at the ATI XPert 2000 Pro 32Mb-AGP but it is not listed on the redhat hardware compatibility list. I would also like to note that cost is not a factor with the monitor, but is a factor with the card. Also, if anyone has any experiences with online vendors, or at least good links, I'd like to hear them to :) Thanks, Rob -- Hi! I'm Larry. This is my brother Bob, and this is my other brother Jimbo. We thought you might like to know the names of your assailants. This mail proudly composed and transmitted without the interference of any Micro$oft products or protocols.
