| Posted on 06-Dec-2000 14:29 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 29 comments
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There are now a couple of photos of a 5 PCI-slot model of G-Rex and a screenshot of Workbench running on a Voodoo4 4500 through the G-Rex on the CyberGraphX homepage. The G-Rex should be up-and-running at the WOA2000 show next weekend.
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| Posted by Mark Bowman on 05-Dec-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Michael Jantzen):
>>Too bad there's no AGP slot. Then I'd have a good place to stick a Voodoo >>5 :). I've got one in my PC - its fast at 3D, but for the price the GeForce >>goes about twice as quick.
>>Seriously though - the Voodoo 3/Voodoo 4 - (I'm not sure about the 4500) the >>differences are pretty big. The Voodoo 4 is based on the VSA100 chip which ??>>runs at 166 mhz. It can do 32 bit colour, 2048x2048 line textures (the voodoo >>3 can only do 256x256...) and support AGP 4x.
Hmm..AGP would have been good especially if you wanted to play decent games at high colour depth and resolution. The NVIDIA series of gfx cards at each price point and AGp would have given access to cards by all manufacturers assuming driver support was available.
One thing that people have forgotten is that other decent PCI solutions such as TNT,TNT2,TNT ultra, TNT2M64 etc aare availble at way cheaper prices in PCI variants and the performance of most of these things are reasonable and way better than a BVision or S3 virge. Heck even a 16MB banshee is going to waste all of the existing cards.
Given the option I would probably use these cards rather than the pretty pricey PCI voodoo series of cards.
I'll stop whingeing anyhow and say its good anyhow as it's good to have a choice but I am waiting for something that is not connected via a connector to a connector relying on an old an possibly unreliable a1200/a4000mb. However all this other stuff makes me want to resurrect my old a1200 that has been gathering dust for some time now.
For my money in this situation I guess the mediator would be a better answer due to the fact that PPC accels are not availble readily in Australia. I'm more interested in networking the box to my current PC's for a bit of fun...But again if you already have a PPC accel thent eh grex seems defiantely the way to go until a more integrated solution is available.
Anyway I think I've rambled on enough and lost the point of my reply about 4 times |
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