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From: Dominik Horinek (horinek_at_eefus.Colorado.EDU)
Date: Mon Apr 09 2001 - 17:09:45 CDT

Dear John,

thanks for the fast reply.
Can you give me some recommendations about medium- and high priced
accelerators, too? I've read something about Nvidia Quadra2, but these
ones are very expensive. What about Geforce3?
Is the performance so mucher better compared to the low-priced cards?

Greetings,

Dominik 

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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, John Stone wrote:
> 
> Dear Dominik,
>   At the present time I'd recommend the NVidia GeForce family of 
> products as a low-cost option for Linux.  You can pick up several
> of the GeForce models for between $100 and $150, and they all work
> pretty well on Linux, using the XFree86 4.x server that comes with most
> of the current Linux distributions.  The drivers are pretty easy to 
> install, and cards perform very well given what they cost.  There are
> higher-end "professional" OpenGL accelerators for Linux, as well as 
> commercial X servers.  In our lab, we're using a large number of the
> "GeForce 2 GTS" model cards, ours are sold by "WinFast", but they are
> almost the same as the NVidia reference boards.
> 
> Let us know if you have more questions about this.
> 
> Thanks for using VMD!
>   John Stone
>   vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> 
> Let me know if you have more questions about this.
> 
>   
> 
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:38:40PM -0600, Dominik Horinek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to have recommendations for a 3d graphic card. VMD/ Linux should
> > support it using OpenGL 3d acceleration. What prices do I have to expect
> > for such cards.
> > 
> > Thanks for any recommendations,
> > 
> > Dominik
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dominik Horinek
> > University of Colorado at Boulder
> > reply to: horinek_at_eefus.colorado.edu
> 
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