new system shaping up

[Kerry Hoath]

The other problem with the boards with the onboard SIS 8236 and similar cards;
if you leave the onboard video enabled you loose 20% of your memory bandwidth
and the video card eats system ram to use for video ram. Nice in theory but evil
in practice. You also need extremely new X servers to run the shared ram versions
of the SIS, they're nothing flash. Far better onboard video can be had with the
ati Ragepro128 and friends.

Regards, Kerry.
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:35:38PM -0500, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> Couple of thing kinda things:
> 
> 1. I have a Smart And Friendly 4X4X24X CD-RW (SCSI), which works well with
> cdrdao and with cdrecord and the generic SCSI CD-R drivers.
> 
> 2. Don't get a Sis (Sys? No, I'm fairly sure it's SiS) chipset video card.
> I got one (an AGP one), because I didn't need any great shakes for video,
> and when I tried to install any linux or run stuff, the system seemed to
> lock up randomly. ... Gene and Kirk may remember my Debian trials in May.
> ... Anyway, go for a Matrox card--I've seen 8MB video cards for fairly
> inexpensive prices on the net. or ati. Or s3. ... But stay far away from
> SiS.
> 
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