[NTLUG:Discuss] Video card recommendations

[Bryan J. Smith]

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.

> 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.

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 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.


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