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SMP-Oriented Video Card Round-up

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the doubling-up-the-fun dept.

Jason Mitchell writes "I just noticed that 2CPU.com has posted a rather large video card round-up. They ran game and application benchmarks on a dual Athlon MP and Xeon workstation and also did some unique qualitative testing pertaining to s-video output quality. It's a good read."

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  1. Interesting mix by Cali+Thalen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Not all of them are the newest and swankiest on the block (some are actually quite dated), but we wanted to at least include analysis of cards from all the major players in this industry"

    Good to see this...I hate only seeing reviews of the latest $300+ cards, since I'm not THAT rich

    "Furthermore, we will hit you with a smorgasbord of benchmarks on both a dual Athlon MP system and a dual Xeon workstation."

    And here, they lost me. How about some AVERAGE systems to go along with the average cards... I don't know how much of a difference 2x processing will make in most games, and I'm certainly not likely to even consider that route for a gaming system.

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  2. Re:Good to see by Mononoke · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    note: slashdot user 'danamania' is a transexual. be careful talking to him
    Why all the trolling about this. Who really cares? Is there something about his/her converstational patterns that might affect us in some way?

    Or were you embarassed by the answer you got to the lame old 'A/S/L?' question?

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  3. Back to the old PVR.... by rowanxmas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So I am getting ready ot build a new(er) box to make a PVR setup work...who has good recomendations on:
    1: A good TV-capture card ( low $$ a plus )
    2: The best TV-out (S-vid/that yellow cable)

    People say "just go buy one", but I would really like some experiences....

    --rowan