From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 10:25: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB0537B6AF for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA04697; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:31:38 +0100 Message-ID: <3A5F4C2C.5C1C866B@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:25:48 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Parquette Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86: PCI vs. AGP Does it matter which? References: <3A5F29F8.9000209@twcny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Parquette schrieb: > > Hi. Please CC me on any replies. Thanks. > > I am prototyping a FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE machine as an X terminal. > At this point, all the machine would be running would be FreeBSD, > XFree86 3.3.6, and Enlightenment. Another machine would be the 'server' > that would be running the actual apps. e.g. StarOffice 5.2, Netscape > browser and Netscape Email MUA. > > For the final configuration, if "all" I'm doing is running X on this > machine, does it really make a difference if I use a PCI graphics card > or one of the AGP cards? > TIA for your thoughts. No. AGP boards can access data stored in your machines' RAM better than PCI boards, but this matters only for 3D graphics games accessing lots of texture graphics. If you do not plan to do anything wiht 3D graphics, there is practically no difference between AGP and PCI boards. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message