On Saturday 24 February 2007, Claude Jones wrote:
On Sat February 24 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I might have to start from scratch again just to change the video
> card. And I'll be damned if I'm going to spend 4x the price of the
> mobo on a video card just so the gl screenblankers run smoothly.
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=4128229
Just put one of these in an AGP slot in my ASUS - it scats! With 256 mb
ram it's got plenty of ooomffff - certified to run Cinelerra according
to several folks on that list, and look at that price
Not bad at all, but who is Jaton? Does it look like an nvidia card to the
nvidia driver?
I know you said you like to buy local, but, if you choose to make an
exception, I've found
mwave.com to be a great resource. They have the
best website for building systems from scratch, because you can choose
various mobos, and they offer you drop downs for processors they have
that will work with that mobo and drop downs for memory - takes a lot
of research effort out of the process, And their prices are some of the
best. I buy a lot of stuff from their closeouts and bargain basement
sections, where you can really get some astounding deals.
Another nice site is
surpluscomputers.com - they're currently offering
the Pioneer 111 DVD writers for $39 - just bought 3 today - far as I'm
concerned, no one builds a better DVD writer than Pioneer for
day-in/day-out DVD duplication work in a studio environment
This is the place I got my SuperMicro server recently discussed in a
different thread on this list. Barebones price was $817 and that
includes a 675 watt P.S., eight hot swappable SATA trays with built in
RAID, up to 64 GB of ram in some configurations, and lots more - we got
that machine up this week, and it's dancing circles around our old $30k
Compaq Proliant -
So far as the NVidia cards, I also bought a bunch of PCIx versions of
the one above, and they are real fast:
glxgears
2330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.975 FPS
2304 frames in 5.0 seconds = 460.695 FPS
2275 frames in 5.0 seconds = 454.949 FPS
I'll look when I'm awake agan, but this ati (and I think glxgears is
lieing to me) says it doing 770 or so.
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
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Cheers, Gene
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