Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendations

2004-12-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:20:44 -0500, Norman wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Curtis L. Olson writes: 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,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendations

2004-12-17 Thread Dave Martin
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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendations

2004-12-17 Thread Matthew Law
Curt, Given the budget and assuming the prices over this side of the pond aren't too different to you, I'd go for something like this: http://makeashorterlink.com/?N69123E0A I like Gainward cards. They usually use better quality, slightly faster RAM which allows them to be clocked up a little

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendations

2004-12-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:13:59 +, 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendations

2004-12-17 Thread Dave Martin
On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 00:46, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..these are Nvidia clones, which chip? They are not clones, in fact they are Nvidia produced PCBs (the only card they ever contracted for self manufacture. The only components the OEMs were allowed to alter were the back-planes and coolers

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendations

2004-12-17 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: 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