[iyonix-support] Re: Upgrading video card

On 26 Dec, george wrote:

> Having installed 5.12 I'm now considering upgrading my video card
> (currently the bog-standard NVidia one as supplied with this X100 Iyo)
> to either the 5200, 5500 or 6200. Does anyone who has installed one of
> these have any data about the resulting improvement in video
> performance?
> 
I'm not seeing any real increase in performance, as the Geminus screen 
acceleration is incompatible with the new cards. A Geminus update is 
"on the cards" (sorry!) for early January, though.

That's the "con" - the "pro" is that my Panther is much more stable - 
apart from one occasion, I haven't had "pyjamas" with the new card, 
and the frequent failures of the machine to start up are a thing of 
the past.

This is with the NVidia GeForce FX 5200.
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