fglrx question

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Feb 24 08:46:00 UTC 2007


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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