On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 06:30:57PM +0100, Daniel James wrote: > > > For a recording studio application I > > > wanted zero noise. > > > > I chose a Matrox G550 Dual DVI for this job, since I wanted really > > good 2D. Does anyone actually use accelerated 3D in a music studio? > > Not yet, but you have tro wonder how much CPU you can save by pushing some > of the rendering of those fancy UIs onto the card. > > Theres also the potnetial of using high end graphics cards to run DSP > sofrtware, there quite good at FFTs aparently, something like 20x faster > than a good P4. <question mode="dumb"> But how do you get the result back? can graphics cards give data back to the cpu, or is it just a 1-way trip to the monitor? </dumb> -- Paul Winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com "Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"
