> From: Jeff Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [SM] ATI & Sapphire Radeons...?
> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:56:33 -0600
>
>
> At 01:16 -0800 02/22/2003, Will Schou wrote:
>
> I'd like a dual head video card though, because it would let me run
> dual SCSI cards in a PTP based machine and still have room for ATA,
> USB/FW, and Wired4DVD.
>
> I understand about the clutter and I suppose that is more of an issue
> with your still young child ;-)
>
> It's not so much the clutter, as fitting all the cards into the six
> slot limit. Two SCSI cards, two video cards, ATA, USB, FW, and
> Wired4DVD means that I'm two slots short. So some of the cards need to
> double up. FW/USB is obvious (though not in S900 lower slots). From
> there I can either go to the Tempo Trio or get a dual head video card.
> A dual head SCSI card would defeat the purpose of putting one SCSI
> card on each PCI bus of the PTP--a trick that one can't do on the
> S900, because it has only one PCI bus.
>
> Jeff Walther
Sorry about the mixup ;-)
I feel your pain what with still having a J700 with the 4 PCI slots! I
will have to find a S900 motherboard soon or maybe something else if
cheap enough. I'm an odd ball in the sense I love the shape of the J700
desktop case. I have never liked tower machines which most people seem
to. I understand the limits of the UMAX machines so well I hate to
change horses. I had to remove my 10/100 ethernet card in order to put
in a firewire card recently.
You could move to OSX and with the Sapphire Video card you won't need
the Wired4DVD card anymore.DVD works great in OSX with ATI cards. That
would clear up 2 slots! There are no perfect solutions it seems even if
you buy a new machine and spend tons of money.
By the way i've been running my flashed ATI PC 7000 32 mb card straight
now since Thursday the 20th (4 days and counting)and no issues nor
problems at all. There is even a program to turn on the Quartz engine
in OSX which moves over the PCI bus taking more load off the CPU.(which
Apple limits to the AGP bus) It speeds things up a bit and everything
has a very smooth fluid movement especially DVD & video in general. It
is said some setups could be limited by the video moving over the PCI
Bus but I've not yet seen that. Will S
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