Non-free Extras?
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Feb 22 22:30:06 UTC 2006
Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
>
>>> For the moment I haven't heard of an OSS solution with good performance
>>> for 3D games....
>>>
>>
>> My Radeon 9200 works just wonderfully using the Free R200 DRI stack.
>> (Then
>> again, I'm not much for heavily graphics-intensive games anyhoo, except
>> for the occasional match of Nexuiz with my friends.
>>
> I am not very impressed with the benchmarks for this particular card (I
> am looking at 9200 SE 128).
> It appears to be in the same class as an Nvidia GeForce 5200 FX. My
> previous generation card was a 5700 FX Ultra, which at this point I
> consider obsolete, since it can't run any of the latest games without
> significant lag.
>
The SE is a very bad choice it only has a 64 bit wide memory bus making
it severly crippled. If you want to judge the 9200's judge a real one.
Regards,
Hans
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