Me Want!!

[Dr Mordrid]

http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=90&sp=Y

Dr. Mordrid

[lecter]

I don't get one thing - for 2D display for all those pro video editing people, is everyone stuck with the ATI Rage XL? There don't seem to be high-end PCI-X cards out there...would using smthn like the Matrox Axio replace that? Because I really don't get it, otherwise...who would want to drive a big professional monitor from an 8MB ATI?

[Dr Mordrid]

Quite a few editors are using Matrox P-cards because of the ability to use either triplehead or 2 displays plus PureVideo/DVDMAX output to an S-video production monitor for previews. For PCIe Matrox also has the APVe which can do SD capture & HDTV output.

Given the need to use something else I'd probably go with an ATI FireGL or an NVIDIA Quadro FX until either company comes out with a pro-quality card with HDTV output.

Axio is a canned editing box with a ton of high-end effects. With price tags of $7500 for SD and $11,500 for HD they're not exactly even prosumer units.

I can't see to many WEVA members getting these unless they have a rather busy studio, and besides the cost in most edits less is more; meaning too many effects distract rather than enhance.

Dr. Mordrid

[Gurm]

For the original topic:

It's... a... COMPAQ, CIRCA 1995!

(J/K, looks cool!)

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For Lecter:

Didn't you see that Matrox announced a G550 in PCI-X just a couple days ago? It's PCI-X x1, to be sure, but it fits in the slot.

[Fluff]

Me want -> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qw.html (has a PCi express 16 slot and a 4x slot) and 3 PCI-X thrown in.

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/m4881.html

Wow can add another 4 cpus later to make it 8 way

[lecter]

I'm still not clarified about this...the mobo has PCI-X, not PCI-Express (the G550 is 1x PCI-Express, for those little slots that come with new mobos)...since when are these two standards compatible?

[Fluff]

You can put a PCI Express 1x in a PCI Express x16 or x4 slot. PCI-Express is a serial interface.

PCI-X is somethines compatible with PCI they are both parallell interfaces.

The Tyan board I kinked could take a Geforce 7800GTX for example. Not sure about SLI though.

[Wombat]

I'm still not clarified about this...the mobo has PCI-X, not PCI-Express (the G550 is 1x PCI-Express, for those little slots that come with new mobos)...since when are these two standards compatible?

I'm confused about your post. The motherboard shows both PCI-X and PCI-E slots.

[rylan]

Did I miss something? I don't see any PCI-e slots on that board, just 4 PCI-X.

[Fluff]

My bad, I posted a link, to a 8 socket 940 Tyan Board in post #5 with PCI Express x16 slots. I take it you were referring to Doc's Post #1

[spadnos]

Well - at least we're back to the days when you can spend $20k on a PC again

Actually - lots more. The motherboard is $1500 (if it's anywhere near the S4882).
This add-on is probably in the $1000 range.
8x$2600 for Opteron 875s (gotta have dual-core, after all).
Of course, you'd have to max out on RAM - 128 GB. So add in 32x$1160 for 4G modules (slow and non-ECC, but what can you do?)
So here we are with roughly $60k - and we still need a hard drive. (maybe not with 128G RAM)

This might be too expensive for me

- Steve

[UtwigMU]

The 8-way Tyan I think has no PCIe and you're stuck with Matrox Parhelia PCI for 600$ - 64-bit 66MHz PCI or any other card.

[Fluff]

The 8-way Tyan I think has no PCIe and you're stuck with Matrox Parhelia PCI for 600$ - 64-bit 66MHz PCI or any other card.

There is a small pic of the board. Only limitation is lack of funds and maybe SLI.