[nylug-talk] Video Cards....

[Joseph M. Gaffney]

On Monday 06 November 2006 21:52, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:06:34AM -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> > It's a shame, isn't it?
> >
> > Looking at Newegg as an example, there are the two obvious ones - NVidia
> > and ATI.  Then there are Ageia, SiS, and XGI.  Ageia makes those PhysX
> > cards, so not a real video card, but added processing power.  XGI
> > released open source drivers [1], but I don't know the quality of the
> > drivers or the cards.  Now I can't tell, but doesn't it look like SiS's
> > drivers for linux [2] are the open source drivers?  It seems so, but I
> > don't know if that means they recommend the open source ones, or if they
> > have contributed drivers.
> >
> > I think contacting XGI is a worthwhile effort, I'm going to test that
> > route... I'll post up what I find out.
>
> Whem was the last SiS card produced?
>
> Ruben

The last SiS card *I* remember usinghad 4mb ram.... but NewEgg has 2 of them, 
both under $20, that are 64mb & AGP... so I would guess not too horribly long 
ago.  I think now its only integrated video.

Though doing a bit of searching, I've found that SiS has a number of multi-GPU 
cards out there, but they are actually geared for security applications, 
which I found interesting.

-Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin