On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Harry Waddell wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:48:40 +0200 (CEST)
> Vit Herman <dragon@penguin.cz> wrote:
>
> > HI folks
> >
> > I'm gonna buy a new computer and I'm not sure what graphic card to buy. I
> > would like to have ATI Radeon 9200, is it supported? If not, which one
> > one would do better?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vitek
> > dragon@penguin.cz
>
> The radeon 9200 is not supported by Xfree86 4.3.0.
> The radeon 8500 is a very good card, costs less, and will perform quite
> nicely.
>
> If you want to do extreme gaming, the fire GL X1 might work better,
> but it should cost a lot more. If you just ned really nice graphics, stick
> with the 8500. If building a silent PC, consider the 7000 or 9000 models
> which do not need a fan for the GPU, but are both slower than the radeon
> 8500.
>

Pitty. No local dealer currently has 8500 on stock and the same with other
models. I could get 9000PRO but for almost the same price with only 64MB.
Will 9200 work in unaccelerated mode?

> You can consult
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/radeon.4.html
>
> for more information. Also, tomshardeware.com has some interesting
> benchmarks, but they are almost all done under windows. The lunatic fringe
> video cards are very dependent on having optimized drivers, so there is
> really only a loose corralation between the benchmarks for the newest cards
> and what you'd see runing XFree86 4.3.0.
>

Thanks for answer
Vitek