<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Stephen P. Villano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen.p.villano@gmail.com" target="_blank">stephen.p.villano@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 8/30/13 8:24 PM, HP-mini wrote:<br>
> On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 12:04 +1200, HP-mini wrote:<br>
>> On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 17:46 -0400, Stephen P. Villano wrote:<br>
>>> On 8/30/13 4:10 PM, HP-mini wrote:<br>
>>>> On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 22:59 -0400, Captain Hook wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Well, I have a list of specs now for any future PC builds here. ;)<br>
>>> But, I'm limited on the hardware of this machine to either AGP or PCI,<br>
>>> looks like PCI is going to win this race with the 210 card I'm looking at.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Rather ironic how I relied on this same model dual xeon system at work a<br>
>>> handful of years ago, now it's simply serving up media for the house.<br>
>>> Oh well, it was either this system or the spare Dell 2850 in the<br>
>>> basement. ;)<br>
>>> _______________________________________________<br>
>> There are no PCI nVidia 200 series video cards..<br>
>> PCI was obsoleted by AGP & that was a long long time ago..<br>
>> The last PCI video card were oddball versions of 8400GS.<br>
>><br>
>> There are no AGP cards that support VDPAU but with a fast CPU that does<br>
>> not matter (except for power consumption).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> Wikipedia suggests that there is a PCI version of GT210.<br>
> That could have been made to support some OEM requirement & would be<br>
> more expensive.<br>
> I think the wikipedia info is wrong..<br>
> But good luck trying to find one.<br>
><br>
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</div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sparkle-PC-GeForce-Graphics-SP210L512JCPI/dp/B00ABG6Y5S/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1377812745&sr=8-15&keywords=GeForce+210" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Sparkle-PC-GeForce-Graphics-SP210L512JCPI/dp/B00ABG6Y5S/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1377812745&sr=8-15&keywords=GeForce+210</a><br>
Says it's PCI and a GeForce 210 clone.<br>
<br>
Regardless, it's *got* to be better than the Quadro4 with bad memory<br>
that was in the machine (had to steal a card from my spare, spare<br>
antique to get the thing lit up.<br>
But, I think dual 1.8GHZ Xeon processors have a fair amount of<br>
horsepower. In spite of my running four cams, two IP cams, two V4L cams<br>
for ZoneMinder on it as well (those keep an eye on my 83 year old<br>
father, who is suffering from dementia).<br>
<br>
For fun, I use a Cubox to monitor those cameras when upstairs and when<br>
dad's in bed, watch videos off of my Myth backend.<br>
Mixed results for the entertainment, acceptable performance with the<br>
monitoring the surveillance cameras. It falters when handling swift<br>
action movie scene changes and heavy compression.<br>
I'm going to play a bit with that unit as well, as I'm certain that some<br>
of the video processing isn't quite being exploited as well as it can be.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I had a PowerEdge 2950 at the office that was previously running Exchange 2007 for my entire office of 110+ users. After virtualizing it was sitting around doing nothing so I decided to bring it home and use it in place of the server I built in January. I turned it on and it sounded like a jet airplane. I guess the datacenter in my office is loud because it seemed quiet in there. In any case, it was a dual Xeon server with 16GB of RAM and multiple 146GB 15K SAS drives with hardware raid (Perc 6) so I thought it would at least be comparable to my existing i5 3570k-based "server" I already had, right? Wrong. A few benchmarks proved that the i5 system could run absolute circles around the PowerEdge so I promptly took it back to the office where it is now a FreeNAS system to play around with.</div>
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