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From: Michael Galloway (mgx_at_ornl.gov)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 12:36:28 CDT

hmmm ...

this box, based on the intel SC450NX mainboard does not have an AGP slot. i
cannot seem to locate a PCI based GeForce board. any know if it comes in PCI?

-- michael

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, John Stone wrote:

>
> Hi,
> My own suggestion for getting the most bang for the buck with running
> VMD on a Linux box is to get one of the GeForce 256, or GeForce 2 GTS boards.
> We have had some great results with ours so far, and VMD (unlike most games)
> is extremely well suited to taking advantage of the hardware T&L on the
> GeForce boards. The hardware T&L gives the GeForce a big advantage over
> the other boards we've tried so far. The Voodoo boards are probably
> the next best choice, although they lack hardware T&L, and would be much
> more dependant on main CPU speed. I have no experience with the "xig"
> software you mention below, but we have been using XFree 4.0 with
> success, and intend to keep using that on the Linux boxes that some of
> our group's scientists use.
>
> Thanks for using VMD!
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu