On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: > I'm about to buy a new machine and wonder for which hardware to go. It won't > be an expensive machine so I consider a cheap 3D AGP graphics card but > wonder which one can be used under X.
In addition to looking at commercial solutions like Xi and Metro-X, you can take a look at the XFree86 web pages. Take a look at: http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/index.html#SectionF -- chipset support > Also what's the better buy for the > money, Pentium II or K6 II? Hard to say. In terms of bang-for-buck, K6's are *much* better - you get about the same performance for *much* less money. There are a couple snags, though - the K6's FPU (floating-point math unit) is slower than the PII's. Unless you do scientific calculations, or raytracing, or something like that, you won't really notice a difference. Also, the K6 uses a Socket-7 motherboard, and many of those don't support a 100MHz bus speed. A faster bus is *always* desirable. Take a look at Tom's Hardware Guide for a lot of information about this: http://www.tomshardware.com/ (It also has a pretty good section on video cards...) Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "One man's 'magic' is another man's 'engineering'. 'Supernatural' is a null word." - Robert Heinlein
