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Re: Speeeeeed



Hmm, seems that you've been with Alpha's too much :)

1. Why did u buy P200MMX? you could add a few dozens shekels and you
could buy a PII 233 or better - 266 which is MUCH faster (I heard that
next month they're stopping the P200MMX manufacturing)

2. OpenGL on S3/Virge? it will run very sloooowwllllyyy...

My suggestion:

Get everything (almost) back and get this:

1. Leave you S3 for a good 2D performance (X server)
2. Get a GOOD Motherboard (I suggest for you to check
http://sysdoc.pair.com) and at least PII-233
3. Get yourself a Voodoo 1 3D card. It costs today something like 150$,
it supported by Linux ofcourse :)
4. For god sake, the prices of RAM getting to the floor. Expand to 64MB

Finally, after this "Shipootz", no new hard disk??

Hetz


Yaron wrote:
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>   Hi,
> 
> I just got a new mboard+CPU and display adapter, and either something's
> really, really wrong about them or I've been hainging around with ALPHAs
> too much.
> 
> This thing just seems... slow.
> 
> I used to have a CyrixP166 (at 133MHz), 32megs RAM and a Cirrus Logic...
> uh, 5446 is it? with 2megs.
> 
> No I've got an Intel MMX 200MHz, 48megs RAM and a Diamond Stealth/S3
> ViRGe, also with 2MB.
> 
> And, well, I really barely see any difference at all, except the BogoMis
> went from 133 to 400. There's a marginal improvement in things, but
> really, I'd expect the OpenGL modes in xlockmore to actually move somewhat
> more smoothly...
> 
> Is it me or should I take this thing back to the store?
> 
>                         Bye,
> 
>                                 -Yaron.