From: jcaesar@mediaone.net To: Reply-To: ml@qoole.com Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:20:35 -0700 Subject: Re: video card Uh.. that's not exactly true ;) (sorry couldn't resist) Some Voodoo cards use a digital switch, while others use an electronic relay (physical switch). The Diamond's use a digital, which doesn't click, and the Orchid's Righteous uses a relay which does click.. Most people I've talked too (including myself ;) think the output is slightly less blurry with the relay, vs. the digital switch. Joel -----Original Message----- From: Martin Espinoza To: ml@qoole.com Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 12:21 PM Subject: Re: video card >Inskipp wrote: >> >Also, do certain cards work better with a given 3d card or >> >are they all pretty much the same? >> Basically, the faster the 2d card the better, any slow PCI card >> will have a major impact on your 3d, for pass-through reasons. > >Uh, that's not true. > >That might have been true IF you were using the VESA passthrough, >but it's not. The VGA out goes to a VGA in on the voodoo card, and >then there's a digital switch on the card, and there's a VGA out on >the voodoo. The speed of your 2d card only affects the speed of your >2d operations, not the speed at which a voodoo card operates. > >---------------------- mespinoz@tivoli.com ------------------------- > Nothing is true; Everything is permitted. --Hassan I Sabbah