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September 7th 05, 06:58 PM
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4-output video cards: NVIDIA or Matrox?
Hello everyone!
Wondering if people in this group have experience with both NVIDIA Quadro NVS and Matrox G450 cards to help me compare the two. Need to equip a system that produces 4-channel multimedia output (MPEG-2 mostly). I have it with NVIDIA Quadro NVS (16Mb RAM per channel) currently, but the PC seems to be dragging its feet (3.4GHz HT Pentium/1GB RAM/250GB SATA) with 4 channels of video playing. I understand that there is also some serious processing power required for the task, but I don't want to go into dual Xeon configuration if some additional performance can be squeezed out of the videocard first. None of the manufacturers seem to address multimedia applications like mine in their product comparison matrix, mostly CAD and just multiple desktops. Anyone has any pointers for me? Should I even attempt it with one processor? -- Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD http://www.cabling-design.com Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for premises cabling users and pros http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling Residential Cabling Guide ------------------------------------- ##-----------------------------------------------## Article posted with Cabling-Design.com Newsgroup Archive http://www.cabling-design.com/forums no-spam read and post WWW interface to your favorite newsgroup - alt.comp.hardware - 7925 messages and counting! ##-----------------------------------------------## 
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September 7th 05, 09:51 PM
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I allways understood Matrox was the leader in multi display cards, tried
emailing them with your specifics? They were helpfull when I last mailed them "Dmitri(CAbling-Design.com)" wrote in message ... Hello everyone! Wondering if people in this group have experience with both NVIDIA Quadro NVS and Matrox G450 cards to help me compare the two. Need to equip a system that produces 4-channel multimedia output (MPEG-2 mostly). I have it with NVIDIA Quadro NVS (16Mb RAM per channel) currently, but the PC seems to be dragging its feet (3.4GHz HT Pentium/1GB RAM/250GB SATA) with 4 channels of video playing. I understand that there is also some serious processing power required for the task, but I don't want to go into dual Xeon configuration if some additional performance can be squeezed out of the videocard first. None of the manufacturers seem to address multimedia applications like mine in their product comparison matrix, mostly CAD and just multiple desktops. Anyone has any pointers for me? Should I even attempt it with one processor? -- Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD http://www.cabling-design.com Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for premises cabling users and pros http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling Residential Cabling Guide ------------------------------------- ##-----------------------------------------------## Article posted with Cabling-Design.com Newsgroup Archive http://www.cabling-design.com/forums no-spam read and post WWW interface to your favorite newsgroup - alt.comp.hardware - 7925 messages and counting! ##-----------------------------------------------##
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September 8th 05, 12:12 AM
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Yo most likely need multiple graphics cards with hefty processing power
each. -- DaveW __________ "Dmitri(CAbling-Design.com)" wrote in message ... Hello everyone! Wondering if people in this group have experience with both NVIDIA Quadro NVS and Matrox G450 cards to help me compare the two. Need to equip a system that produces 4-channel multimedia output (MPEG-2 mostly). I have it with NVIDIA Quadro NVS (16Mb RAM per channel) currently, but the PC seems to be dragging its feet (3.4GHz HT Pentium/1GB RAM/250GB SATA) with 4 channels of video playing. I understand that there is also some serious processing power required for the task, but I don't want to go into dual Xeon configuration if some additional performance can be squeezed out of the videocard first. None of the manufacturers seem to address multimedia applications like mine in their product comparison matrix, mostly CAD and just multiple desktops. Anyone has any pointers for me? Should I even attempt it with one processor? -- Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD http://www.cabling-design.com Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for premises cabling users and pros http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling Residential Cabling Guide ------------------------------------- ##-----------------------------------------------## Article posted with Cabling-Design.com Newsgroup Archive http://www.cabling-design.com/forums no-spam read and post WWW interface to your favorite newsgroup - alt.comp.hardware - 7925 messages and counting! ##-----------------------------------------------##
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September 8th 05, 01:37 AM
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DaveW wrote:
Yo most likely need multiple graphics cards with hefty processing power each. Hi Dave, Thank you for the suggestion. I honestly never thought it would be possible on a PCI bus to have four separate video cards. If it is possible, it would be a nice solution indeed 'cause I can relatively easily find cards with specialized MPEG de-compression chips onboard, the functionality both multiple output cards in the OP lack. Any document on the Net I can read about multiple video card systems? -- Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD http://www.cabling-design.com Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for premises cabling users and pros http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling Residential Cabling Guide ------------------------------------- ##-----------------------------------------------## Article posted with Cabling-Design.com Newsgroup Archive http://www.cabling-design.com/forums no-spam read and post WWW interface to your favorite newsgroup - alt.comp.hardware - 7969 messages and counting! ##-----------------------------------------------##
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September 8th 05, 10:56 AM
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Multiple cards work for some and not for others, there seems to be no
correlation with hw used Many posts about the problems. "Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com)" wrote in message ... DaveW wrote: Yo most likely need multiple graphics cards with hefty processing power each. Hi Dave, Thank you for the suggestion. I honestly never thought it would be possible on a PCI bus to have four separate video cards. If it is possible, it would be a nice solution indeed 'cause I can relatively easily find cards with specialized MPEG de-compression chips onboard, the functionality both multiple output cards in the OP lack. Any document on the Net I can read about multiple video card systems? -- Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD http://www.cabling-design.com Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for premises cabling users and pros http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling Residential Cabling Guide ------------------------------------- ##-----------------------------------------------## Article posted with Cabling-Design.com Newsgroup Archive http://www.cabling-design.com/forums no-spam read and post WWW interface to your favorite newsgroup - alt.comp.hardware - 7969 messages and counting! ##-----------------------------------------------##
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