*** NEW VIDEO CARD AND NEW DESKTOP PICTURES ***

[Jabba]

Just fitted a new video card (as far as I know one of the only ones to offer 3D performance as well as quad DVI ouput @ 1600x1200)

http://www.imaginegraphics.co.uk/products/colorgraphic/Xentera.htm

http://www.colorgraphic.net/newsite/downloads/pdf/xentera%20gt%20spec.pdf

Compared to the last one that was running on analogue...the results are simply breath taking...but I will allow the pictures to do the rest of the talking.

(The last wallpapers of the cars are just for fun)

http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/802.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/803.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/804.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/805.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/806.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/807.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/808.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/809.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/810.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/811.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/812.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/813.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/814.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/900.jpg
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/901.jpg
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/swordfish/902.jpg

[vv1s34ss]

wow jabba your computer really sucks :P

[Toronto]

amazing! what game is that you have running, and what is that game you have running (why does it say maddalon.com i think?)

[TT]

I'm speechless :D to watch 4 different videos at the same time require some sort of training and not only a great video card :P

And your desktop pics are AMAZING!

[abbor]

That's some real shit... Digital is so much better, I know.. But with my Geforce 2 MX 200, there is no digital output to my single 17" monitor..

BTW: That celebrity that week, is he very famous in England? There's so many of them who I have never heard of..

[nejcdolinsek]

Holy Shit :shock:

[Jabba]

You may want to refresh the page as I just a added a couple of car wall papers (just for fun)

[possessed_beaver]

OMG that is totaly insane

can you rely notice that much of a differance between digitial and analog outputs?

[No.1]

Jabba your PC is immense.... is there no slowing with even 4 vids running?

Where did you get such high res panoramic views?

[Jabba]

OMG that is totaly insane

can you rely notice that much of a differance between digitial and analog outputs?

A mini review I wrote for another forum :

The performance of the whole system compared to when using the Matrox G200MMS is OUTSTANDING. The actual monitor displays are now crisp and clear as I am able to run at 1600x1200 DVI as opposed to a very grainy 1600x1200 analogue with the Matrox.

The 2D performance is razor sharp with absolutely no "lag" on any of the displays and as you will see in the pictures I was running four full screen videos at once without any slowdown whatsoever (even if one is a DVD playing on full screen and the others compressed DIVX there is no slowdown in performance either).

The 3D performance obviously is not as breathtaking but yes it does have some and I am sure it would be capable of running a few of the older and less demanding games if you chose to do so ( I am not a gamer and I am only interested in video editing/encoding)

I was also able to push the system a bit further to a stable 4.02 GHZ with the new card and I am sure it could go further still.

Performance stats coming soon.

[DanielW]

i hate you :P

[Jabba]

You are the person that I have been waiting for thamar.

You might have to have a custom title soon "PC Genius"

I am too embarrassed to post my 3D mark score but then my 3D power is spread out over 4 screens so perhaps we should multiply it by four !!....as I understand it the two VPU's on the card is split between the four screens if I went for the eight output card using only four screens then each screen would have its own dedicated vpu and therefore I presume performance would be increased. Also the eight output card is 256 MB vs 128 on my one.

Is there any other way to increase my 3D score or maybe I would do better with the other more processor based test ?? From what I could see though you have to pay for that one ??

Any help greatly appreciated.

[saadie]

wow ..... ya made it even kewler .......

hey jabba .... yer sys is old change yer system :wink: ... telme when yer throwin it out ... :wink: 8) 8) 8)

EDIT : ya can use riva tuner to over clock yer GPU if its made by nvidia ...

[robruf]

Jabba, that is quite the system that you have there, simply outstanding.

[oscargarza88]

:shock: JABBA!! no more pics!!! its not fair! ur comp is so :shock: !
in the pics the grafics are almost perfect, i bet in person i bet it sux! ull have to prove it to me :lol:


* i wish i couls have a comp like that when im older.... :cry:

[Minacious]

Very nice Jabba.

I'm with thamar, lets have a 3Dmark comparo. I will bury you all. :D :D :D

[BADMIHAI]

I see you went for the Canuck company(ATI). Not a bad choice for sure. 8)

[Jabba]

Its one from www.colorgraphic.net

[Zonda11]

For every new card I get....... YOU GET FIVE!! haha...crazy system!

[Jabba]

Very nice Jabba.

I'm with thamar, lets have a 3Dmark comparo. I will bury you all. :D :D :D

If you want I can take the gloves off and go with a single output card and then send a private plane to fetch thamar over to the Jabba HQ :wink:

Just joking...if you can beat thamar then you can have a custom title as well. "3D Mark" King or something.

[Jabba]

A way to increase your speed, is when you benchmark or would be gaming, that you turn of the other monitors, with ultramon that goes rather quick. That way they only have to adress a single monitor.


Damn of course I should have thought of that...will try that tonight.

[yg60m]

Jabba, when i am behind my computer and that i look at your computer i have the feeling to look my dick and to compare it to John Holmes one :lol:

[Jabba]

Well I have to have something to make up for the size of my one :wink:

[Ziploc]

3 things now ;)

[PATo355]

Impressive Jabba , btw looking at those TG videos now i know you keep uncompressed files on your HD , how much do they weight ? And how do you manage to convert them to Widescreen , if you capture them in 4:3 then we miss something when converting to 16:9 right ?

Amazing setup ... but they dont do justice on how they look in real life

[Minacious]

And your system being? ;)

LOL! Just messing around with you kids. I was never really one to try and be the fastest on the block. There will always be someone faster. The only time I really upgrade is when the rendering time for my 3D apps starts to chug a bit.

My fastest machine has 2Gigs of Corsair XMS PC3200, an ASUS Radeon 9800XT, an AthlonXp 3200, 2 WD 120GB HDs, among other things. With conservative tweaks here and there inside of a box with a bunch of fans. With JW being gandered at on a 22" monitor. As you can see nothing major, but it does well. :D :D
I wouldn't even try to compete with you guys. :D

[The Transporter]

Very nice background pictures jabba.

I'm speechless :D to watch 4 different videos at the same time require some sort of training and not only a great video card :P


It's amazing under windows, ... it's not under linux:

http://blenderman.free.fr/temp/mplayer.jpg

Cya :p

[jon_s]

Yeah, yeah, well my Ge-Force II MX400 will kick ass! hehehe maybe not :oops:

[The Transporter]

Minacious, that 9800XT would kick my ass i'm afraid hehe ;)


The transporter, windows can do even better then you think :P But it has to be said, with Mplayer also ;)

(and idd, Kvirc & Mozilla Firefox)

ahh sweet I didn't know that mplayer was avaiable under W1nd0wS !
And yes, mplayer pwnt !

[The Transporter]

Minacious, that 9800XT would kick my ass i'm afraid hehe ;)


The transporter, windows can do even better then you think :P But it has to be said, with Mplayer also ;)

(and idd, Kvirc & Mozilla Firefox)

Update in !

http://blenderman.free.fr/temp/mplayer2.jpg

I'm using firefox, gkrellm, irssi, skype, psi and xmms under kde 3.2.3

[Chingachgook]

The desktop pictures are UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
the Grand Canyon landscape left me speechless.

Jabba, your computer ROCKS

[MercedeSChink]

hey jabba, how do you have your background setup!? right now i have a dual mon, running off windows xp...i'm trying to get two separate wallpapers on each screen but it doesn't work...is this a trick you have up your sleeve or is it an option that only money could buy(ie. new vid card)!? btw i have the ati 8500 radeon card...

[Bling]

that is flat up the sickest setup ive ever seen. i stopped spending tons of cash on computers and instead dump it into my car and gas years ago. you had to drop some serious cheddar to pick up a setup like that. thats gotta = at least a fmic and a huge turbo upgrade...

DAMN!

[MercedeSChink]

yo, i need normal language, not computer linguo, i'm not a computer whiz here...

[nthfinity]

straight up very impressive, Jabba... and much more so then before as well; no doubt :)

[hemi_fan]

wow jabba your computer really sucks :P

hahaha, didnt see that coming. Thats an amazing set-up uve got there jabba. Im just happy that my comp can play top-gear vids. lol

[MercedeSChink]

aight, got ultramon, thanx guy!!!

[SFDMALEX]

That is awesome Jabba. I wish I had a setup like that. Very space age! Love it. Its great for shcool. When doing researh papers....

Im very jealous.

[saadie]

jabba ya got Radeon 9000 ... i got 9100 IGP .. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[Jabba]

jabba ya got Radeon 9000 ... i got 9100 IGP .. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

How many monitors does that support ?

[saadie]

i was only talking abt the GPU .. :P :P ... i got 9100 builtin ... it only supports one output ... :wink:

[Jabba]

Impressive Jabba , btw looking at those TG videos now i know you keep uncompressed files on your HD , how much do they weight ? And how do you manage to convert them to Widescreen , if you capture them in 4:3 then we miss something when converting to 16:9 right ?

Amazing setup ... but they dont do justice on how they look in real life

They are a couple of gig each and are captured in 16:9 from my sky digital + box.

I will be hooking it up to its SVHS port soon so expect an improvement in video quality.

[sikx5]

woh far out, damn i like looking at this PC.

[schnell318]

That is just the most impressive setup I have ever seen :shock: :shock: :shock: ... really just mind blowing, congrats :D

[jorge]

Wow, it´s really impressive, i once saw a guy with the same setup, but he had 3 monitors in different sizes. This is really great!

[SFDMALEX]

Jabba at what frequency do you run those monitors?

[Jabba]

1600x1200 60HZ DVI

[SFDMALEX]

at 60HZ its fine? no strain on the eyes?

I guess LCDs dont flicker like crts.*dont have much experiance with LCDs*

[Jabba]

at 60HZ its fine? no strain on the eyes?

I guess LCDs dont flicker like crts.*dont have much experiance with LCDs*

Nope it even reccomends that frequency in the card documentation. Also notice the lack of "flicker" in the photos that the camera normally sees with CRT.

[Jabba]

A dumb question now I should think.

Can you screen burn a TFT ? (meaning by leaving the screen on the same image for hours on end)

I would imagine not though...as with CRT its the actual ray part that burns the image into the screen....right ? and with TFT its just pixels that are turned on with a small electrical charge ??

[Jabba]

What causes stuck pixels though ?? could they become stuck if left on for too long ?

[Minacious]

Actually, a TFT monitor can get burn in, it just has a lot stronger tolerance than a CRT.

[Jabba]

Anyway to unstick a stuck pixel ??....and if you can screen burn them...then I guess I better start looking for a decent screensaver.

[RC45]

TFT do burn - on a previous project we have flat panel monitors and plasma TV's on the walls for realtime network status... and the web page border and default icons burned into all of them in about 3 months.

But granted they were on 7x24 - but it is still possible.

I think stuck pixels are hardware errors and there for good.

[Jabba]

That advice may have saved me an expensive broken heart.

Do you know anyway to unstick quite a few pixels that I have on one of my monitors RC ?

[RC45]

Well - there was a story that you can rub the screen gently and perhaps you can "repair" the malfunctioning transistor.

Ever notice how you can prexss the TFT screen and affect the behaviour of the transistors? Same idea... but I have no idea what the potnetial for damage is.

[Jabba]

Well I guess you might need "healing" hands or something. I guess if I just try it on that area then I dont have alot to loose really.

[Jabba]

Its alot more than five...but the cost of the shipping (UK > USA) both ways and all the hassle that goes with it is worse than the stuck pixels.

[Jabba]

Well not just a different sticker on the case...the whole case has been changed...probably should read powered by Samsung.

[geargirl63]

:shock: :oops: All I can say is "Holy shit." That is an amazing set up Jabba. WOW.

[SFDMALEX]

This is new to me. I never knew TFTs can burn. All I know is that the back lights can die after some years, but burned pixels :shock: Weird.

[Daggernite]

I dont know if I think your cool or if I hate you, nice PC!!! or is it sum sort of nasa mainframe?

[rachaderua]

very good pc jabba :D

[bmagni]

woa !!!!!!!!
congrats man !!!

[TVR_Fan]

I think you need to test your PC out on 3D Mark 2003 Jabba, then that will take your system to a even better test.

[fabro_s]

I never thought you can possibly do that to a computer, its amazing, the wallpapers look beatiful, congrats jabba!! :P

[crazidude]

Man that's really nice. The 4 monitors with those wall papers look really nice. I was wondering, do you even play any games Jabba?

[Jabba]

No. Not really a gamer.

[TopGearNL]

Amazing :shock:
I love it :D