On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:13:59 +0000, Dave wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> May I suggest looking out for GeForce FX5800Us. > > Myself and a friend managed to pick an unused pair up a few months ago > for very little money and they are quite frankly 'storming' cards. > > They have a 500Mhz GPU and 1000Mhz (DDR) memory on 128bit bus and > manage to keep up with the higher-spec 5900/U's by using sheer > brute-force clocks rather than wider memory busses. > > The catch with the card is the FlowFX system which is *fairly* noisy > but not louder than a modern air-cooled high-performance PC. > > Plus they run a treat with Linux and are fully supported by the Nvidia > driver set including temp sensing etc. ..these are Nvidia clones, which chip? > > On Friday 17 Dec 2004 23:36, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > I hope this isn't too off topic ... > > > > I am involved with a project where we are going to setup a > > multi-channel visual system running flightgear. (3 PC's, 3 > > monitors.) We can budget about $150-200 for the graphics cards, but > > the landscape has changed so much since I last shopped I'm not sure > > what to do. We are committed to buying something nvidia/GeForce > > based. The new 6800 cards are still way out of our price range. > > The 5900/5950 cards are probably a bit high right now too. But I > > see there area 5200's, 5500's, 5700's. and you can still find the > > older ti4600/4800 cards floating around too. I know that some of > > these varients were designed more as low end/cheap consumer cards, > > and I'd like to get something with the best capability/performance I > > can within our budget. Does anyone have any recommendations? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Curt. > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
