Alan Cox wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:50:38AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
>buy new now locally (Brisbane, Australia) are ATI and NVIDIA. (A
>GeForce2 MX400 (!) 64 Mb for AU$58 and a Radeon 9200 SE 64 Mb for
>AU$65.) I'm sure the market is different in other countries, but i
>don't think Australia is an unrepresentative part of the world.
Every low end player now mostly targets the motherboard market. Its
just too expensive to bother with the hassle of connectors and bits
of board nowdays. I'm not so sure they are all low-end either - the later
intel i8xx 3D is rather nice.
Not according to Tom's Hardware:
http://www20.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040211/radeon_9100-16.html
and check out the benchmarks starting at
http://www20.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040211/radeon_9100-11.html
At our school, we have a few teachers that teach 3D graphic design and
gaming design to our high schoolers, and the consistent message i get
from them after testing is: the "Extreme" in "Intel Extreme Graphics
(2)" (the IGP in the 845 & 865) stands for "extremely slow". :-)
All of this is beside the point i was trying to make: many people have
an existing investment in NVIDIA & ATI, and even if they wanted to swap
to something more Linux friendly, it would mean a big performance drop
and a new motherboard.
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Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net
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