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    Round 2: best graphics card for 3d work?

    ah, this is great news for maya users, thanks for the input. hmm .. will those fire pro cards support future openCL ( openCL renderers) ?
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    Round 2: best graphics card for 3d work?

    i want to be a little more precise .. i've seen there's drivers available that support maya, the question is rather if the software will natively support twin cards. i don't understand properly if the GPU load balancing is done by maya or the operating system.. ? would that native support even...
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    Round 2: best graphics card for 3d work?

    hi .. i am using maya which has about the same needs as 3ds max .. is there any hope that ATI crossfire is supported by our favourite 3d app, using the new fire pro cards ? there's a sync board available too, would this help ?
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    5.1 surround headset for PS3 ?

    you guys know this ??? www.psykoaudio.com/
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    5.1 surround headset for PS3 ?

    nope, no mic needed !
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    5.1 surround headset for PS3 ?

    hi ! is there a headset with a good surround feeling that i could buy for movies/games on my PS3 ? price doesn't matter for now.
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    quadro-fx .. difference between Nvidia and PNY cards

    no, no ! it's really great you guys mention those problems. i don't want to make a mistake here ! your opinions are worth gold .. no platin ! i'll look at those atis again ..
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    quadro-fx .. difference between Nvidia and PNY cards

    - bad axe 2 mobo - intel core 2 quad QX6700 2.66 GHz (extreme edition) running @ 3.33 GHz (10x333; watercooled) - 8 GB ddr 2 @ 667 MHz (ram not overclocked since 667 is 2x333) - win xp 64 where would those (damn) bottlenecks be ?
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    quadro-fx .. difference between Nvidia and PNY cards

    i got an other rather important question .. if i decided to buy one of those nvidia 5800 monsters .. would it actually work with my mainboard ? i got a intel bad axe 2 : http://www.intel.com/design/mo...bd/bx/bx_available.htm the card has pci-express 2.0 .. but is that software or...
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    quadro-fx .. difference between Nvidia and PNY cards

    i'd use maya (3d modeling) .. i've heard HP also produce some quadros .. i hope those 4 gig cards get cheaper soon ! :-( * * * else than just for display purposes, i am waiting for a solution to render (non-realtime) images directly on the GPU, like nvidia's gelato, which died some...
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    quadro-fx .. difference between Nvidia and PNY cards

    hi. i am thinking about buying a better graphics card for 3d modeling (not gaming). now nvidia quadro fx is the chipset of desire, but i've seen both Nvidia and PNY sell graphics cards with those chipsets. so what's the difference if i buy a PNY instead of an original Nvidia card ? any...
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    renderfarms

    sweet... 8 GPUs ... :) actually i've been searching on GPU computing a little in the past too. well. there's only one big problem: software's not adapted. and ordinary software cannot be speeded up with GPUs. i mean there are renderers around like gelato...
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    renderfarms

    yep... watercooling's cool... but the maintenance and risks (more elements that are able to fail) are a little higher. my main system is in a thermaltake (prebuilt watercooling) case and i had no problems so far with my Q6700 2.66 @ 3.3 GHz. just when having a farm you cannot have all...
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    renderfarms

    i've seen one of the threads searching on my own. so thanks for the other one. :) it's so tough to choose a rig though. there are so many possible rigs to buy and i'd like to go for components that let me OC for sure up to 3.6 even if i had to run a lot cooler for stability's sake. by the...
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    renderfarms

    it seems the cheapest overall solution is always q6600 based with overclocking. how far can the quad q6600 be overclocked with just fans or an active copper sink?