[plug] PCI VGA cards

[Scott Middleton]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 17:26, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 16:56, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> 
> > 	I've managed to convince the boss, not only that we should use linux on
> > our workstations, but they should be thin clients. On top of that, I'm
> > going to attempt to run two consoles per machine.
> > 
> > To this end I need five PCI SVGA cards. Specs aren't that important,
> > provided it will do 1024x768x16 and ISN'T S3.
> 
<Snip>
> So avoid S3 Trio* cards, they're slow and crap. I'd say you already know
> that, going by your requirements above. 
> 
Agree they really suck.

> I bought a few SiS based cards from Austin, and found them to be fairly
> fast (and cheap!). Alternately, NVidia GeForce4 MX PCI cards, even in a
> P133, have such great 2D performance that you could think you were
> sitting at the server. I hear that Matrox cards are excellent, too - if
> you can find any. I haven't tested those as thin clients, though.
> 
I bought a NVidia GeForce4 MX PCI a few weeks ago and they are no longer
cheap. They did come with tv out though. I bought it from evolution
xtreme.

Regards

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