[Flightgear-devel] desktop PC for fgfs

[<Wol...@t-...>]

I know this question comes up every half year,
but every half year the answer has changed :-).

What is the "optimal" fgfs desktop PC (with the best price/performance
relationship)?
I promised to bring a good PC to Stuttgart for the fair,
so I either want to upgrade my current one or buy a new=20
additional one.

It seems to me Athlon TBird is at least as good as Intel
processors? I am looking at the range 1 GHz - 1.4 GHz.
I will probably take DDR Ram, either 256 or 512 kB.

=46or the graphics processor, I am really unsure about=20
GeForce 2 versus GeForce 3. On the web site comparing=20
the two with the many flight simulators, fgfs is=20
missing :-/. For some simulators, the 3 is much faster
than the two and for some the 2 is much faster than the=20
three. The three has many nice features (Pixel/vertex=20
shaders etc), but I doubt that we PLIB/FGFS/PPE=20
programmers will get to the level of using that in the=20
forseeable future. I am not quite sure whether there=20
is a big difference between anisotropic filtering=20
between GeForce 2 and 3.=20

Is there anyone here that has used fgfs with a=20
GeForce 3? Because of the unified drivers, there=20
should be no problems with the GeForce 3 + Linux,=20
should there?

I looked throught the old discussion and saw there are some SCSI fans.
I used SCSI for a long time (Amiga only had SCSI IIRC), but then
switched to IDE. People said that it helps with multiple read
operations at the same time. If I only run fgfs, would SCSI help?
Would it help compared to two IDE drives?
How much difference (in $) is it now?

Also, some people suggested dual CPUs. I am not sure it is worth the
hassle. How much difference would that be to a single CPU machine?


=46or Linux, I want to use SuSE.

Bye bye,
Wolfram.