[Request] PCI-X Graphics card

po0k

I know this wierd, but some were made for Apple systems. I need to find one that works in a PC running WinXP/Win2K/Server2K3

I am not looking for a PCI-Express card. Anyone who suggests one will get a verbal berating unlike any witnessed before.

This is PCI-X, 64-bit wide, 66/100/133/266/533Mhz, 3.3/5V
Needed for a server that doesn't have an AGP slot, and PCI cards are too slow.
Please do not suggest anything bar a PCIX card from the GeForce4/Radeon8500 generation upwards. It is needed for 3DSMax rendering.
I know what I'm looking for, I just can't seem to find it because a load of sites use the PCIX acronym in place of PCIe/PCI-e/PCIeX.

po0k

God-damn this board.

One serious interesting question and it gets sloshed under a pile of "How 4 I put floppy in PCI slot?" threads.

Doodee

I oince Read tat CD roms have teh lazer beams for cd's, IF i put my Centra sammich in there can I toaest it during lunch time at work?

ITs a Dell optiplex Sandwhich toaster x4728

Ri_Nollaig

lol

WizZard

I can only find two, this one and this one.
I'll keep looking...

<edit>Sorry, the first link seems to be Apple only :eek: </edit>

Khannie

SyxPak wrote:

God-damn this board.

One serious interesting question and it gets sloshed under a pile of "How 4 I put floppy in PCI slot?" threads.

LOL.

Your question is /very/ specialised to be fair. I'd only ever heard of PCI-X in a thread on here before pointing out that it wasn't the same as PCI-E, and never actually read anything of importance about them / seen them for sale / etc. and you can rest assured that I read a lot of crap about computers in general.

Feel free to bump though. It's a busy forum, and stuff can get lost. Good luck.

po0k

Thanks WizZard, the latter card is for embedded/industrial systems.

I've an idea that 3DLabs may have produced a card or two for PCI-X.
Matrox deffinately did with a version of the parhelia, but that sucks for 3D

The search continues.

Khannie

This one?

The page that I clicked from had PCIE and PCIX labels.

Inspector Gadget

The only difference between most Mac graphics cards and PC graphics cards (with the notable exception of the varieties with ADC connectors on them, as they have exotic power requirements, though you might get away with just an adaptor as you won't be powering the display) is that the BIOS contents are different. If the BIOS ROM is socketed/discrete, you might be able to flash a Mac card with a PC-variant BIOS, if you can find an example of same and a suitable programmer? (This has been done for some earlier-model Radeons; the Mac BIOS ROM is sometimes bigger in size than the PC one to avoid people flashing cheaper PC-targetted cards instead of buying the dearer Mac ones, but as you're going the other way...?)

The only (other) fly in the ointment here is that the Mac graphics cards tend to be *more* expensive than their PC counterparts

Gadget

Ri_Nollaig

cant u get a standard PCI one?

po0k

Inspector Gadget wrote:

The only difference between most Mac graphics cards and PC graphics cards (with the notable exception of the varieties with ADC connectors on them, as they have exotic power requirements, though you might get away with just an adaptor as you won't be powering the display) is that the BIOS contents are different. If the BIOS ROM is socketed/discrete, you might be able to flash a Mac card with a PC-variant BIOS, if you can find an example of same and a suitable programmer? (This has been done for some earlier-model Radeons; the Mac BIOS ROM is sometimes bigger in size than the PC one to avoid people flashing cheaper PC-targetted cards instead of buying the dearer Mac ones, but as you're going the other way...?)

The only (other) fly in the ointment here is that the Mac graphics cards tend to be *more* expensive than their PC counterparts

Gadget

Aye, I knew that, the ATI Radeon9600 PC & Mac Edition (for $200 or something equally insane) came out recently too, with both PC and MAC firmware on the card and dual DVI to drive the 30" Apple Cinema Display.

Ri_Nollaig:

SyxPak wrote:

PCI cards are too slow

And the guy is getting or already has a PCI 5700LE.

Inspector Gadget

The 30" cinema display isn't powered through the monitor port, but some are. ADC macs have special PSUs with a 24/28V supply (at several amps) that feeds into a small socket that's inline with the AGP slot (in the ones I've seen)... that's what I meant by "exotic power requirements"...

Of course, the dual DVI thing is only (really) a hack, and kinda proves that DVI-D wasn't sufficiently "future-proof" - like no-one expected to need large high-resolution displays?

Anyhoo, good luck with that; I suspect you're going to need it
Gadget