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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/30/13 9:13 PM, Captain Hook wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 8:53 PM,
Stephen P. Villano <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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>
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>>> 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>
>>>
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>> 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>
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>> There are no AGP cards that support VDPAU but
with a fast CPU that does<br>
>> not matter (except for power consumption).<br>
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>><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>
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Says it's PCI and a GeForce 210 clone.<br>
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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>
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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 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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Yeah, they're good for their purpose. Raw storage, general purpose
medium level DB and tossing data. Processing? Workstations do
better, as they're designed to do so. Think your 2950 is loud, try
my SCSI 2850's. I swear that the 1960's batmobile is getting ready
to blaze out of my basement.<br>
But, seemed quiet in the datacenter at the time. <br>
Of course, I never heard the fire alarm go off in the hallway while
I was in the datacenter. The hint I had was the cloud puffing out of
the air ducts.<br>
And the mass confusion and noise in the hallway when I opened the
door to see if anyone knew where that puff of nasty came from
(turned out they were cleaning the ducts and someone banged a duct,
pushing desert dust throughout the end of the system and setting off
the fire alarm sensors).<br>
We got an annunciator for the datacenter after that.<br>
But, when I first fired up those two 2850's, it blew my wife's mind
thinking I was in a center with hundreds of the things running.<br>
Of course, her mind was already pre-blown from my military career.
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Or was that raising the kids...? ;)<br>
<br>
No, it was the latter. Blew my mind too. <br>
But, grandbabies are fine. Fun too. We can tell to go home, we're
tired and take mom and dad with them. ;)<br>
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