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If you driver your monitor at say 85Hz (85 refreshes per second) there's not really much of an advantage of being able to draw frames faster than this as you'll never see them...
Thought i would add to this. Just got a radeon 9000. Have 30 days to return it, but needed something today. Glxgears...
8805 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1761.000 FPS
10603 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2120.600 FPS
10605 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2121.000 FPS
10602 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2120.400 FPS
Quake 3 demo four 800x600 105 fps, 640x480 139 fps.
Havent tried any tweaks yet, just got isdn so gonna be gaming on here and the rage 128 pro i had didnt cut it. For some reason CS just doesnt work right. I tried the ATI fire drivers, and with both ati, and dri drivers CS has no textures. And the fps was horrible. Definitely need a gforce.
wow, the 9700 pro is bad as ****. Getting that. For the anihilator2 those are some pretty high fps. I have never heard of that card. Even the gf 4 mx's are pretty nice. radeon 9000 sucks, lol. cant wait to return it. May just put the rage 128 back in the box and hope for a dummy at the return desk.
Originally posted by neenee 320nmb, i doubt those scores are real...
(correct me if i am wrong though)
Well I can assure you that I didn't type them myself but I did find it suspicious that they jumped from below 500 to well over 3000. I dunno- I just put the card in, ran glxgears and that's the output. It has done the same in subsequent runs of glxgears as well. I have been using a Savage S3 w/ 8M for several years. What do I know about video cards? What could cause this to be? Oh BTW- I did notice that the cpu was maxed out.
i think i'll have to browse for info on gfx-card
tweaking in linux then.. since when using glx-
gears i get approx 1800fps with a 1.4athlon,
512mb ddr ram, and a geforce2pro...
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