aaronkatrini wrote on 2021-03-29, 10:56:
I've had the Nvidia one with dual gpu... yeah cool in theory, but the performance in games was horrible, ended up selling it.
Also these dual chip cards have that awful DMS-59 connector that you need to have an adapter to split into two VGA or DVI outputs.
I'd stay far away from those dual chip cards!
Yeah, I was thinking that would be the case with the dual geforce 4 card
I actually have a dms60/59 to hdmi and dvi so I’m all set
Jackal1983 wrote on 2021-03-29, 14:20:
Sphere478 wrote on 2021-03-29, 07:51:
I actually just bought one of those (15 bucks, waay cheaper than the other NV17 based PCI Quadros) so worth trying). My understanding though is it's more like 2 GF4MX-440 cards attached to a single PCI slot via a PLX chip, so no SLI goodness. The plan is to just disable one of the GPUs in Device manager and use it like a single PCI GF4MX-440 card and just ignore the other one. I might look into modding the bios to disable one of the chips on a lower level.
That makes sense. I wonder if there is a way to just make it act like you installed two cards I mean games would just work like one was installed anyway if no sli sorcery was going on...?
cyclone3d wrote on 2021-03-29, 14:51:
The Quadro FX 600 PCI is more like the FX 5500 than the Quadro NVS 280 is. The FX 600 PCI has 128MB RAM instead of only 64MB RAM
Heh... I just realized that the FX 5200 Ultra is clocked a lot faster than the FX 5500... Interesting.
My research seems to say it’s basically a geforce 4? Was that the previous generation? Is that why it is more similar is that what you are saying? I’m not up on what nvidia was doing on those generations
It seems it’s 64mb per gpu. So that would kinda be the same