[NTLUG:Discuss] Video card recommendations

[Jay Urish]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 21:31 -0500, Jay Urish wrote:
> 
>>Maybe 0+1
>>I have an adapter 2410SA, I know I will be limited right off the bat by 
>>the fact its a PCI-X card in a plain PCI slot.
> 
> 
> It's also an age-old i960 66MHz microcontroller.  It doesn't matter what
> slot it's in, it ain't breaking 50MBps.
> 


That would explain why it is soo slow.

I need SPEEEEEEEED! So I guess I am back to looking at the 3ware. I want 
to stay SATA. My friend Craig recommended these Hitachi SATA drives with 
2 platters.


> 
>>I guess since I wont be playing any games, I could go to a server board 
>>that HAS PCI-X and just get the best damn PCI video card I can find.
> 
> 
> Huh?  You can get PCI-X _and_ PCIe (or AGP) in the same mainboard.
> Take the Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE for example:  
>   http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html  
> 
> CPU#0 has the nVidia nForce Pro 2200 and AMD8131 dual-PCI-X.
> CPU#1 has the nVidia nForce Pro 2050.
> 
> It'll run you over $400 though.


too much... I am on a budget..
> 
> BTW, I hope you know the Socket-478/LGA-775 Pentium 4 and Socket-754/939
> Athlon 64 are _single_ CPU-only (yes, dual-core, but single CPU socket).
> You have to go Socket-604 Xeon or Socket-940 Opteron to use more than
> one CPU.
> 

I know that.. Its way above the lame p4 2.4 I am running now..


> 
>>I just want high res for video editing and the GUI(KDE)
> 
> 
> Then I would _not_ get a video card with video editing.  I would get
> something like Hauppauge (not Pinnacle Micro, my mistake) WinTV PVR350
> that has MPEG _hardware_encoding_.  Unfortunately, several people have
> complained the chipset has changed on the PVR350, and newer versions
> might not work with Linux.
> 


Maybe I get on ebay and find an older used one..
> 
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