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Need Video Card suggestion

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kevinthenerd

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I need a suggestion for a fast 2D PCI express card with a fast memory bandwidth. It's for a video capturing application that I can't seem to avoid routing through the video card. The crappy onboard ATI Rage XL gave me 10fps, and a slightly faster Matrox card gave me something like 30fps, but I'm eventually going to want something on the order of 100fps. A single dropped frame is totally unacceptable. (This is for science research data acquisition. Cost isn't much of an issue, but I don't think we want to pay for something that won't be any better.)
 
(a) it's a server mobo and it is a PCI-X slot not PCI-E
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(b) it's a PCI-E X1 or X16 slot, X for speend not hot xyness.

What's your CPU and hard drive speed? For uncompressed capture you may need a faster CPU and RAID0. For software compression you may need a faster CPU.
 
I have a RAID (with four physical drives on the logical that I'm using for storage) on a DELL PERC4/SC, and you can tell it's not working up a sweat at all. It's uncompressed.

Edit: I THINK it's set up as a RAID0, but I'd have to check. When this system was spec'ed out, it was designed for this image capture, but the idiots didn't take into account the fact that the crappy software routes stuff through the video card.
 
ATI Rage XL onboard sounds like a Dell server. If that's the case you might not be able to install a PCIe video card *at all* except for maybe a PCIe X1 card. If you're within your 30 day return period, send it back and get a Precision workstation that has PCIe video.
 
It's a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC. We've had it for quite some time now, and we've had nothing but problems because it was so throroughly misconfigured by the person who purchased it here and the salesman at Dell.
 
Sounds like you're out of luck. That slot is PCI-X which is like a 64bit PCI slot intended for server cards like RAID controllers and gigabit NICs. You won't find a PCI-X video card.
 
Originally posted by: dwcal
Sounds like you're out of luck. That slot is PCI-X which is like a 64bit PCI slot intended for server cards like RAID controllers and gigabit NICs. You won't find a PCI-X video card.
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That's odd. A sticker on the inside of the case door that I removed to get inside said that those odd-looking slots are capable of 100Mhz. Hrmm...
 
Originally posted by: dwcal
Sounds like you're out of luck. That slot is PCI-X which is like a 64bit PCI slot intended for server cards like RAID controllers and gigabit NICs. You won't find a PCI-X video card.
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You forgot about the crazy bastards over at Matrox.

Since this is a dual link DVI card that is designed for scientific visualization type work, it may be just the thing Kevin needs, especially if cost is not an issue.

And hey, if the OP has one of those special 9MP LCDs laying around the lab, they also make this PCI-X card.
 
Originally posted by: batmanuel
Originally posted by: dwcal
Sounds like you're out of luck. That slot is PCI-X which is like a 64bit PCI slot intended for server cards like RAID controllers and gigabit NICs. You won't find a PCI-X video card.
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You forgot about the crazy bastards over at Matrox.

Since this is a dual link DVI card that is designed for scientific visualization type work, it may be just the thing Kevin needs, especially if cost is not an issue.

And hey, if the OP has one of those special 9MP LCDs laying around the lab, they also make this PCI-X card.
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Only $2500? We have a 10000fps camera here, and you can just imagine how much that cost.

Edit: Yes, that's 10 Thousand frames per second. That's not a typo.
 
The problem with a 9MP card is that I have to justify its use to my boss considering we're just using a 640x480 resolution right now. (We used an 8MP camera earlier, but it wasn't at a very high frame rate.)
 
Originally posted by: kevinthenerd

Only $2500? We have a 10000fps camera here, and you can just imagine how much that cost.

Edit: Yes, that's 10 Thousand frames per second. That's not a typo.
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Hey man, the grant money goes bad it you don't spend it. It's like how vodka goes stale if you don't drink it all right after you open it. 😉

I'd say you best bet it is to mention the 9MP display and adapter to your boss first. Then dangle the $700 dual-link DVI card w/ 3007FPW in front of him as the CHEAPER option. Once you show him the pricing on the IBM T221, the 3007FPW will look like a bargin in comparison.
 
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