On Son, 2002-03-31 at 11:33, Kristian Rink wrote:
> 
> ...first of all, being new to the list, just wanted to say Hello to anyone
> out there - 
> I'm Kristian. :)
> 
> Secondly, I am having one question by now: In my machine (PII-350, 192 meg 
> RAM, Slackware Linux 8 w/ XFree86 4.2.0), by now there is an Elsa Erazor III
> 
> LT graphics board (with an NVidia TNT2 M64 chipset on it, 32 meg RAM), and, 
> still packaged and waiting to be integrated into my machine, here is an ATI 
> Radeon VE based graphics board (64 meg SDRAM, dual-head, tv-out). The 
> system by now is pretty fast when it comes to OpenGL - and/or 3D-accelerated
> 
> graphics thanks to the nvidia.com - drivers, so I am thinking right now:
> Would it 
> make sense to replace the TNT2M64 with the Radeon VE, given that I don't 
> need any of the sophisticated features of the Radeon board (tv-out is same
> as 
> uninteresting to me as dual-head CRT-out), but that I want to have a good 
> performance mostly in 2D - graphics, but sometimes also in the field of
> OpenGL 
> and, quite often, while watching DVDs? 
> 
> Possibly this question might sound a little stupid, but I guess in the end
> it comes 
> down to "which board is better in the machine I am having - a TNT2M64 or the
> 
> Radeon VE"? Hope anyone can give me a hint on that, anyhow. :)

Only you can decide which one is better for you.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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