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Adam How 2000-06-20 20:01
I have evidently been to your website and have read your J2000 32MB card review. I myself am a J2000 32MB PCI card user. I am writing to ask you if you have aquainted yourself with the performance of the older JPRO 4-port 32MB PCI card.
The reason I ask is that I am a little upset at the speed of re-drawing of my card. I run my J2000 32MB PCI card under Win98 on a PII400 with 128MB of ram. Two monitors are hooked up both at 1280x1024@60hz, 65k colors. The performace issue is specifically the redrawing of a normal 2D window when hot-key snapped to another monitor. It takes 1 sec to completely render -- that is to FULLY re-draw the window frame and all its contents. You know what I mean when you try the same thing or if you just drag a window across from one monitor to another using the mouse (but not doing it very slowly).
This speed of 2D rendering could possibly improve under NT4 and W2000. But I would like to hear from you and your contacts if the JPRO 4-port 32MB PCI card is faster or slower than the J2000 32MB card in this particular respect. And by what extent.
Thanks for your help!
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Christian Studer 2000-06-21 00:40
The Jeronimo Pro uses the 3Dlabs Permedia 2 chipset, the predecessor of the J2000's Permedia 3 chipset, so I very much doubt that it will be faster. I don't have my J2000 installed at the moment, but I do have a single Permedia 2 on my Win2000 system, and 2D redraw speed is a lot slower than that of my Nvidia TNT and TNT2.
In my experience, the Permedia 2 isn't very good at 2D. When I switched from a cheap S3 Trio64V+ (a 2 MB card) to a Permedia 2 some years ago, I always had the impression that 2D speed hadn't increased at all (but 3D certainly did!).
Colorgraphic (http://www.colorgraphic.net) has 4-port cards with S3 Savage4 chipsets, they'll probably perform better in 2D. Matrox also has 4-port cards (G100 and G200), and their single-port cards are well-known for excellent 2D.
Christian Studer
http://www.realtimesoft.com
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