Re: Best 3D card under (Gentoo) Linux?

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:14:05PM -0500, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> Just that -- from your experience, what's the best game card under Linux?

ATI Radeon, somewhere between 8500 and 9200.

> Currently, I'm on an old Pentium III 500 Mhz with a Voodoo3 that I
> can't get to work and 256M of RAM.

Anything more powerful than a Radeon 7500 is probably wasted on that
system, unfortunately.  Even a Radeon 7000 is going to perform better
than the Voodoo3.  (I know, I went from a Voodoo3 to a VE (7000).)

While the faster video cards off-load a lot of the work from the
processor, you do still need some CPU to push these modern cards. 
Also AGP 1.0 (all your board has most likely) will be a bottleneck.

Personally, I'd probably get this, but only because it is ridiculously
cheap:

  http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-163-103&depa=0

Keep in mind that Radeon 9200 support was added fairly recently, so
you'll need a very recent kernel/XFree86.  (I think it will work with
Fedora Core 1 out of the box.)

Steve
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