| From: | Wannes Van Causbroeck |
| Date: | 27 May 2000 at 12:50:18 |
| Subject: | Re: Overheat in 24bit? |
On 27-May-00, Rudolf Rager wrote:
>Hello everybody,
howdy
>- Is the Permedia2 responsible for all GFX, or just 3d-Applications?
it's a GFX-card---> it does all the graphics (the voodoo on the PIV only does
the 'threedee' stuff)
>- Does the Premedia2 overheat faster in 24bit-Modi than in 8bit-Modi?
i gues that's right, since the pixelclock has to do more cycles
>- Can such an overheat cause a frozen System (no crash, no Error-Requester,
>just frozen)?
overheating produces all sorts of errors/crashes. I had a lot of problems with
graphics
corrupting.
>I ask this, because AWEB, which came with OS3.5, freezes regularly. It runs
>an 800x600-24bit-screen. I never noticed any probs with 8bit-Screens, so I
>guess, my BVision only gets too hot in truecolor...
why do you want truecolor? 16 bit is more than enough for every conceivable
app
and works faster/uses less memory. (i don't have any 24 bit modes)
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