Best Nubus Video for 840av ?

I am setting up an 840av as my daily driver and looking for a video card that will give me the best, snappy performance in a system 7.6 environment.

Happened across an auction for a Thunder II 1360 - anybody have any data on where this card fits on the spectrum

zackl said:

I am setting up an 840av as my daily driver and looking for a video card that will give me the best, snappy performance in a system 7.6 environment.

Happened across an auction for a Thunder II 1360 - anybody have any data on where this card fits on the spectrum

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A very good card, but they tend to be expensive. The built in video on a 840av will be exceptionally fast for many things though. Are you planning to dual or single screen? If single, I'd just max the VRAM on the internal video.

Onboard Quadra video is hard to beat, go with that unless you want to spend $300-600 on an exceptional NuBus video card which will give very little benefit in video benchmarks.

I think the onboard 840av video supports 1152 x 870.

Phipli said:

If single, I'd just max the VRAM on the internal video.

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I'd definitely agree. I was after a "better" video card for the Wombat series of Quadras, and like Phipli said, they tend to command exorbitant prices. And joshc just replied to confirm the same thing before I posted Non-LC/Performa Quadra video is definitely hard to beat. But in the end, it's your money

Thunders are for when you want to do 24 bit video at high resolutions your Quadra can't do even with max VRAM.

Indeed, you beat me to the punch!

1152x870 tops out at only 16bit in the 2MB VRAM limited 840AV. For everyday use or gaming, nothing beats onboard video, but that's not a NuBus Card's intended use case. Thunder Cards are the bomb for displaying big graphics in 24bit, there's nothing like 'em. I lucked into the Radius Thunder IV 1600 as it was mistakenly listed as a much lesser card.

zackl said:

Happened across an auction for a Thunder II 1360 - anybody have any data on where this card fits on the spectrum

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SuperMac Thunder II GX 1360? I'd definitely use that on a daily driver for running a modern 17" LCD in native 1280x1024 at 24bit. That's second fiddle only to a GX 1600 in 24bit on a native 1600x1200 panel.

Run a second display off the 840AV video for gaming and such for the best of both worlds or save your money if the onboard video will suit your needs.

Will be running with a 14av monitor which is my dream monitor set up

Awesome thanks all for the great feedback - will have to find some other fun used for the nubus slots

zackl said:

Will be running with a 14av monitor which is my dream monitor set up

Awesome thanks all for the great feedback - will have to find some other fun used for the nubus slots

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What are you into? Music? Video editing? Electronics?

The 840av has a lot already built in. You can get DAV MPEG boards that enhance the video capabilities. But audio is good, video is good, it has AV, it has ethernet....

There are always processor based boards, Rockets or DOS cards, but they're expensive.

I'd spend my money on a good fast scsi storage device and an ADB graphics tablet

zackl said:

Will be running with a 14av monitor which is my dream monitor set up

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Good choice as it's period correct for the 840AV, but limited to only fixed res 640x480. But that maxes out the 24bit capabilities of the 840AV so acceptable for anything but heavy graphics. 17" version is PPC era

Never knew this about it:

1. Ported (bass reflex) chamber design, max. loudness is 90 db SPL

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