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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
