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Skriven 2009-08-31 21:32:50 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Wayne Chirnside
Ärende: handing out valium
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Hey Wayne!

> Must be another version, the one I'm talking about can
> be had for about $65 IIRC on ebay.

Not necessarily different as I saw and bought an agp version of it ages ago and
the shipping was more than I paid for it.  Still have it but no agp slots so it
sits and waits for someone who can and cares to liberate it and put it into
action.  However it has only one g200 and three risc gpu's for the secondary
dvi for meant for output to 3d glasses that are roughly worth in the
neighbourhood of 5000 - 25000 USD if you can even find them at all.  Definetly
not for the feint of heart but the primary definetly works with regular
monitors so it was worth far more than I paid for it.  I think the original
list price was 750-ish USD.

> It's a PCI slot with only 64 Meg memory on board.

Yep.  How many gpu's?  That will tell the tale.

> Trust me, I checked on power consumption for the 128M
> Nvidea and this little proprietary 145 watt PS won't cut it.

Are we talking pci or pci-e?

> Are you talking of one PCI with only 64M?

Yes.  However the last one I saw advertised recently had four g200's onboard. 
No fans as it doesn't need them and doesn't consume that much more power than
most pci based graphics cards and definetly FAR less than the new fangled pci-e
ones.

> BTW my mouse croaked and I'm doing it all via Links now.

:-)

> I definately like the two network ports and the extra PCI slots.

Yep.  I am still using pci cards for the quite a bit of IO.

> cheapbytes isn't advertising it yet though.

Tsk, tsk.

> I'm still working on it.

The neighbour has it working great as of today.  Had a problem with akondi
which removepkg took care of handily.  He is using dhcpcd with a cable
connection and is now in 64 bit land without any interfercnce from Bill and Co.
 Probably hear more about it after Wed. but the targetted machine is now up and
running with slackware64.  Might be the first one in this part of the world.

Life is good,
Maurice

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