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Re: S3 - Virge/DX or Trio3D for XWindows?

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From: /|ndy |<avanagh
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:19

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Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Wed,
13 Mar 2002 19:09:11 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
demon.tech.pc, yawatina tan reek esk Chris Priest
<chris@nospam.demon.co.uk> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

>Ok, so I'm building some computers from spare or recycled parts for my
>own use. 
>
>Which S3 card, Virge/DX or Trio3D, both 4MB PCI, is likely to be better
>(or perhaps least worse:) for Linux/XWindows 3.6/4.x? A short opinion
>would be appreciated.

I have used (and in fact, am using) a 4mb S3 ViRGE/DX card with my
333Mhz K6-2 machine, happily running SuSE 7.3, mostly in KDE at
1024x728.  I don't know about the Trio3D.  I would suspect little
difference, unless one has more VRAM than the other.

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