PCI GeforceFX options

[poorboy]

Hi.

I'm trying to track down a PCI board with CineFX2 engine. The fastest PCI board I've been able to find is the Inno3D 5600, but that's got the older CineFX, as does the readily available 5200. Anyone know of anyone making a PCI version of the 5700 or better?

Before I get told to upgrade the mainboard and use AGP, I've got an AGP card already, it's not being used for graphics so transfer rates don't matter, and it's got to be PCI so I can run more than one in the machine.

Thanks,
Poorboy.

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[jmecor]

you mean you want a card that is has a cinefx2 engine but run in multiple system units?

Or what you really mean is DUAL DISPLAY?

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[poorboy]

No, you guys are misreading my post. It's not being used for graphics - at all. No display is being used, I'm using the GPU for floating point math calculations. So more cards == more GPUs == more math gets done == faster custom application performance. Which is why I want multiple PCI cards with 5700 or better GPU.

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[Mloot]

I like to think of myself as being somewhat in the know about PCI video cards, but I haven't heard of anything coming out soon that is more recent than the FX 5600 PCI. I had heard, a month or so ago, that Palit was going to produce a FX 5600XT PCI, but that will probably be just a FX 5600 PCI with lower clock speeds.

I believe it was here on THG that there was a picture of a prototype FX 5900 PCI by Palit, but I sent them an e-mail a while ago and they wrote back to say that it would not be going into production.

Good luck in your search.

 

[jmecor]

Oh so you mean,
It's like a supercomputer in which, in your case are not composed of multiple "CPU", but "GPU".

That's going to cost a lot if you found one.

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[poorboy]

Something like that, yeh.

There's been some research done into using the GPU for "general purpose" (eg, scientific) computing, because they're screamingly fast at floating point calculations and quite cheap compared to DSP or FPGA options at low volumes. With the advent of programmable GPUs, decent floating point support, and libraries becoming available, things have gotten very interesting.

To give you an idea of speed, I think I saw a benchmark recently comparing a 5900 to a 10GHz P4 for the calculations it was doing... Anyways, they're pretty effective for some jobs. The 5200 and 5600 PCI cards that are currently available will be a lot slower, but even 1/3 that speed on a card is a useful boost.

Related link:
GPGPU.org <A HREF="http://www.gpgpu.org/" target="_new">http://www.gpgpu.org/</A> (check out the Frogger game linked on the front page ;-) )


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