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Skriven 2009-08-31 18:09:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey Wayne!


 > I see where a Matrox G200 would suit my needs
 > quite fine.

 MK> For sure ... and then some.  HP makes one with four G200's onboard that
 MK> makes me drool everytime I run across it online.  However the ~1700 USD
 MK> they are asking for it puts a damper on the drooling in a hurry.

Must be another version, the one I'm talking about can be had for about
$65 IIRC on ebay.

It's a PCI slot with only 64 Meg memory on board.
That'd be twice what my Voodoo 3.0 AGP had and it was 
quite satifactory.  

 > There's also a PCI Nvidea card but that would mean
 > upgrading the power supply.

 MK> That sounds odd.

Trust me, I checked on power consumption for the 128M
Nvidea and this little proprietary 145 watt PS won't cut it.

I've cut out the CD-ROM drive and could remove the ISA
modem card I don't need and it just might squeeze by.

I'm thinking we're thinking of two diferent Matrox cards.
Are you talking of one PCI with only 64M?

 > I'll email RAC Computers in a day or so
 > and see if he has them in warehouse.

 MK> Let me know what you find out.  

Once I've money in hand in three days I'll post that email.
BTW my mouse croaked and I'm doing it all via Links now.
Have been for some week or so.

 MK> I've noticed a few i7 class
 MK> motherboards have started adding G200's onto the motherboard but I
 MK> definetly can't afford, nor want to, upgrade to an i7.  I am more than
 MK> happy with the quad core xeon and am not looking to replace it.

I've no idea what they are.  

 > I won't rule out multiple for some reason but
 > certainly not games or watching DVD's

 MK> I could understand farming out a movie to a secondary monitor but I
 MK> doubt anyone needs a pci-e 16 lane graphics card for that purpose. I
 MK> also doubt it would be needed for blu-rays.

Probably would never use the second but what the heck, the K9N2
diamond motherboard is impressive.
I definately like the two network ports and the extra PCI slots. 

 > Yeah, I've known Linux Slack 13 64 has been out for two days.

 MK> Sounds about right.  

It's exactly right, I check out wired and slashdot daily.
cheapbytes isn't advertising it yet though.

 MK> I installed it to a hot swappable sata drive here
 MK> for a neighbour and even test booted it and it looks like a keeper. The
 MK> neighbour plans to boot it on the targetted machine tomorrow and do the
 MK> final configurations wrt his needs.  I'll find out Wed. whether he
 MK> thinks it's a keeper.  For my purpose I found it interesting that my
 MK> customized setup on the xeon machine had no issue whatsoever installing
 MK> and making it bootable on the fly.  The neighbour was impressed with
 MK> that part even though he didn't understand how it was accomplished. I
 MK> do good work.  :-)

I am assured of that.
I'm still working on it.



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