the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

[Matthias Buelow]

Godwin Stewart wrote:

> I'd add that Matrox cards are excellent in the 2D arena. I still have an old
> G200 here and It beats the socks off the ATI Rage128 I also have as far as
> clarity and general piqué are concerned.
> 
> Obviously, the Rage128 does better than the G200 in the 3D department,
> although not in FreeBSD for some reason I have yet to fathom out. In Linux
> it works fine.

If one can get them for free (they seem to become available in larger 
numbers these days, when machines from around 1999/2000 get scrapped), 
then Matrox cards (up to g500) are still quite decent for "office" work. 
  However, I have seen that new ones are still sold for up to 100 EUR, 
which is just outrageous, imho.  Considering that you can get a R9200 
for half the price, which not only sports facilities like DVI and TV-Out 
but also supports 8x AGP, has 4-8x the memory and runs circles around 
the MGA, and image quality is roughly comparable, imho.

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   Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de