[AG-TECH] Re: Audio/Video capture

[Jason Leigh]

Seems to me, until AGP8X cards come out, you're going to get minor
performance improvements in 2D applications since you're basically going
to be fill limited.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Jay Beavers
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:15 AM
> To: Robert Olson; Don Morton; Sergeant A. G. Tech
> Cc: Cleary, Daniel R
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Re: Audio/Video capture
> 
> 
> Surprisingly, the NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS 400 (4 head) is a PCI
> card.  The NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS 200 (2 head) is an AGP card.
> 
> 	-----Original Message----- 
> 	From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov] 
> 	Sent: Fri 7/19/2002 8:32 AM 
> 	To: Don Morton; Sergeant A. G. Tech 
> 	Cc: Cleary, Daniel R 
> 	Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Re: Audio/Video capture
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> 
> 	The Parhelia looks like a great card .. I've got one on
> order, we'll see
> 	how it works. From what I see, it shoudl have great 2d 
> performance and will
> 	support the three heads we want at AGP rates ...
> 	
> 	Someone else mentioned an nVidia 4-head card - any news
> on how that works?
> 	Is it really AGP to the graphics engines, or is it like 
> the one I tried
> 	that is AGP to a PCI/PCI bridge and then just PCI 
> graphics adapters.
> 	
> 	--bob
> 	
> 	At 09:27 AM 7/19/2002 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
> 	>Dan, I've posted to AG-Tech - I can't think of any
> reason why the
> 	>Parhelia wouldn't work, and I think I saw talk of it 
> on this list
> 	>in the past day or so.  Maybe someone more knowledgeable than I
> 	>would be willing to chime in?  My only caution would 
> be to ensure
> 	>that it works "with" the PCI video card you'll be 
> using, so you'll
> 	>indeed have four heads working simultaneously.
> 	>
> 	>"Cleary, Daniel R" wrote:
> 	> >
> 	> > Don,
> 	> >
> 	> > I just received a quote from a local vendor for the 
> PIG specs, more
> 	> > specifically for the display computer we talked 
> about setting up on Monday.
> 	> > I requested the wrong Matrox graphics card (the 
> G200) and he quoted me for
> 	> > the Matrox Parhelia triple head. Being as we will 
> be running Windows on
> 	> this
> 	> > particular computer, I cannot forsee any problems 
> with the difference in
> 	> > cards. Can you advise on this situation? Should we 
> insist on the tried and
> 	> > tested Matrox G400?
> 	>
> 	>--
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