Post by ethereal on Oct 15, 2008 20:55:10 GMT
Firstly, I'm new here, so Hi!
Anyway, I have a few questions, and I figured I'd rather just ask here all in one go, since I'm new to this and I don't want to around the entire forum making several useless threads/posts.
Firstly, does Quadro FX SLI still work with two flashed 8800 GTX's..? As in, to get a full 1.5 GB of memory would using two flashed 8800 GTXs together work? And will that work on a Hackintosh? Also (this is probably a noob question) does a flashed card work fine with Win XP x64?
Second, is it possible to flash/convert an 8800 GTX to a Tesla C870...? They seem identical:
"The basic unit of the current Tesla line, the Tesla C870, should be very familiar to anyone who's seen the GeForce 8800. It's essentially an 8800 GTX--a 575MHz core clock and 128 SPs at 1.35GHz--with 1.5GiB of GDDR3 RAM. Of course, it's not quite an 8800 GTX--there are no display outputs at all on the card, even though it has a new version of the NVIO chip." [1]
And third, obviously this might not be the right forum to ask but still, does anyone here know how to setup clustered CPU nodes? I want to use it for inline and background processing, specifically for video-editing, video rendering, color grading, 3D work, etc. I figured the Tesla would be a good bet, especially if I'm able to buy a bunch of 8800 GTX's, flash them to C870's and put a bunch of them in a PCIe expansion box and just let it rip through whatever i throw at it. If that doesn't work, it'd still make a good OpenGL based render farm.
That's about it really. Thanks in advance.
1. www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/77/1
Anyway, I have a few questions, and I figured I'd rather just ask here all in one go, since I'm new to this and I don't want to around the entire forum making several useless threads/posts.
Firstly, does Quadro FX SLI still work with two flashed 8800 GTX's..? As in, to get a full 1.5 GB of memory would using two flashed 8800 GTXs together work? And will that work on a Hackintosh? Also (this is probably a noob question) does a flashed card work fine with Win XP x64?
Second, is it possible to flash/convert an 8800 GTX to a Tesla C870...? They seem identical:
"The basic unit of the current Tesla line, the Tesla C870, should be very familiar to anyone who's seen the GeForce 8800. It's essentially an 8800 GTX--a 575MHz core clock and 128 SPs at 1.35GHz--with 1.5GiB of GDDR3 RAM. Of course, it's not quite an 8800 GTX--there are no display outputs at all on the card, even though it has a new version of the NVIO chip." [1]
And third, obviously this might not be the right forum to ask but still, does anyone here know how to setup clustered CPU nodes? I want to use it for inline and background processing, specifically for video-editing, video rendering, color grading, 3D work, etc. I figured the Tesla would be a good bet, especially if I'm able to buy a bunch of 8800 GTX's, flash them to C870's and put a bunch of them in a PCIe expansion box and just let it rip through whatever i throw at it. If that doesn't work, it'd still make a good OpenGL based render farm.
That's about it really. Thanks in advance.
1. www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/77/1
