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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
 Posted - 18 Mar 2002 : 04:57:22
What practical use can I make of the nubus slots on my quadra 840av?shaktiman |
cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2002 : 12:31:20
You can user them to expand and beef up your Quadra.Here's a list of what I have in my own Quadra 840av: Nubus slot 1. SuperMac SpigotPower AV card (just installed it today!) - This adds hardware acceleration to the existing video capture capabiliies and allows you to capture 640x480 video at 30fps instead of 5fps. Nubsu slot 2. FWB JackHammer card- This adds the fastest possible SCSI disk performance available to 68k macs. Using the 68-pin, Ultra-2 Wide connectors along with a striped (level zero) RAID array, you can max out at a 20MB/sec transfer rate. Nubus slot 3. Radius PrecisionColor 24Xk card - This card puts out 24-bit color all the way up to 1152x978, and is faster doing so than most other Nubus video cards. What else can you use them for? Radius Rockets - Secondary processors that can run tasks in the background. PhotoBoosters - Photoshop accelerators for speeding up rendering. Ethernet Cards - You already have on-board ethernet, so unless oyu get a hold of a 10/100 ethernet nubus card and have a 100mbps capable network, don't bother. Of course there's more, but that's all I can think of right now that would be specifically useful in an 840av. 666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2002 : 12:58:01
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What else can you use them for?Radius Rockets - Secondary processors that can run tasks in the background. PhotoBoosters - Photoshop accelerators for speeding up rendering.
i tend to doubt that the those last two radius products would work correctly in an AV box. they might, but i know Rockets top out at a basic 7.1 install and would wreak havoc with the audio anyway.one more standard SCSI controller would probably be a better use of a slot for scanners, ROMs, ZIPs and other slow i/o. jt 
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 19 Mar 2002 : 09:07:04
I agree, I personally would never use either on an 840av, but I figured I'd mention them before somebody else did!  666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 19 Mar 2002 : 18:04:23
Nubus video cards will allow you to run up to 4 screens, if you set up at least three you can run Hornet in Panorama Mode, that's what I'm doing with my 950...  Just got another video card last night!~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 18:51:38
I didn;t know we were limited to 4 monitors...I've put my Portrait Display and 2 Page display on my 8100, and let me tell you, it's a BEAST! Pagemaker heaven... ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac -
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 19:01:06
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I didn;t know we were limited to 4 monitors...I've put my Portrait Display and 2 Page display on my 8100, and let me tell you, it's a BEAST! Pagemaker heaven...
are there any dual-head nubus vidcards?jt
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 25 Mar 2002 : 19:25:38
You're limited to 4 monitors on the 840AV... unless you get a twin head NuBus card or an expansion chassis, that is!~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2002 : 15:57:22
oooooh, ok. for a minute I thought you were suggesting there was a NuBus limitation of 4 heads. Ok.. so my idea of making a 6 headed Mac II is still viable...~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac -
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2002 : 16:42:29
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oooooh, ok. for a minute I thought you were suggesting there was a NuBus limitation of 4 heads. Ok.. so my idea of making a 6 headed Mac II is still viable...
i don't recall seeing a dual-head NuBus card, but it's hard to imagine that none are available, considering the dearth of available slots on the ci which was a real workhorse for the longest time. you should really look closely at the monitor info on LEM, speed hits from video cards are a lot more common and complicated than i had ever imagined, and that's going a ways!jt™
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