4-output video cards: NVIDIA or Matrox?

Hello everyone!

Wondering if people in this group have experience with both NVIDIA Quadro
NVS and Matrox G450 cards to help me compare the two. Need to equip a
system that produces 4-channel multimedia output (MPEG-2 mostly). I have
it with NVIDIA Quadro NVS (16Mb RAM per channel) currently, but the PC
seems to be dragging its feet (3.4GHz HT Pentium/1GB RAM/250GB SATA) with
4 channels of video playing.

I understand that there is also some serious processing power required for
the task, but I don't want to go into dual Xeon configuration if some
additional performance can be squeezed out of the videocard first.

None of the manufacturers seem to address multimedia applications like
mine in their product comparison matrix, mostly CAD and just multiple
desktops.

Anyone has any pointers for me? Should I even attempt it with one
processor?

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I allways understood Matrox was the leader in multi display cards, tried
emailing them with your specifics?
They were helpfull when I last mailed them

"Dmitri(CAbling-Design.com)" <info_at_cabling-design_dot_com@foo.com> wrote
in message news:431f2a47$1_4@alt.athenanews.com...
> Hello everyone!
>
> Wondering if people in this group have experience with both NVIDIA Quadro
> NVS and Matrox G450 cards to help me compare the two. Need to equip a
> system that produces 4-channel multimedia output (MPEG-2 mostly). I have
> it with NVIDIA Quadro NVS (16Mb RAM per channel) currently, but the PC
> seems to be dragging its feet (3.4GHz HT Pentium/1GB RAM/250GB SATA) with
> 4 channels of video playing.
>
> I understand that there is also some serious processing power required for
> the task, but I don't want to go into dual Xeon configuration if some
> additional performance can be squeezed out of the videocard first.
>
> None of the manufacturers seem to address multimedia applications like
> mine in their product comparison matrix, mostly CAD and just multiple
> desktops.
>
> Anyone has any pointers for me? Should I even attempt it with one
> processor?
>
> --
> Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD
> http://www.cabling-design.com
> Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for
> premises cabling users and pros
> http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling
> Residential Cabling Guide
> -------------------------------------
>
>
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Yo most likely need multiple graphics cards with hefty processing power
each.

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"Dmitri(CAbling-Design.com)" <info_at_cabling-design_dot_com@foo.com> wrote
in message news:431f2a47$1_4@alt.athenanews.com...
> Hello everyone!
>
> Wondering if people in this group have experience with both NVIDIA Quadro
> NVS and Matrox G450 cards to help me compare the two. Need to equip a
> system that produces 4-channel multimedia output (MPEG-2 mostly). I have
> it with NVIDIA Quadro NVS (16Mb RAM per channel) currently, but the PC
> seems to be dragging its feet (3.4GHz HT Pentium/1GB RAM/250GB SATA) with
> 4 channels of video playing.
>
> I understand that there is also some serious processing power required for
> the task, but I don't want to go into dual Xeon configuration if some
> additional performance can be squeezed out of the videocard first.
>
> None of the manufacturers seem to address multimedia applications like
> mine in their product comparison matrix, mostly CAD and just multiple
> desktops.
>
> Anyone has any pointers for me? Should I even attempt it with one
> processor?
>
> --
> Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD
> http://www.cabling-design.com
> Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for
> premises cabling users and pros
> http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling
> Residential Cabling Guide
> -------------------------------------
>
>
> ##-----------------------------------------------##
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DaveW wrote:


> Yo most likely need multiple graphics cards with hefty processing power
> each.

Hi Dave,

Thank you for the suggestion. I honestly never thought it would be
possible on a PCI bus to have four separate video cards. If it is
possible, it would be a nice solution indeed 'cause I can relatively
easily find cards with specialized MPEG de-compression chips onboard, the
functionality both multiple output cards in the OP lack.

Any document on the Net I can read about multiple video card systems?

--
Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD
http://www.cabling-design.com
Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for
premises cabling users and pros
http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling
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Multiple cards work for some and not for others, there seems to be no
correlation with hw used
Many posts about the problems.

"Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com)" <info_at_cabling-design_dot_com@foo.com> wrote
in message news:431f87b4$1_5@alt.athenanews.com...
> DaveW wrote:
>
>
> > Yo most likely need multiple graphics cards with hefty processing power
> > each.
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Thank you for the suggestion. I honestly never thought it would be
> possible on a PCI bus to have four separate video cards. If it is
> possible, it would be a nice solution indeed 'cause I can relatively
> easily find cards with specialized MPEG de-compression chips onboard, the
> functionality both multiple output cards in the OP lack.
>
> Any document on the Net I can read about multiple video card systems?
>
> --
> Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD
> http://www.cabling-design.com
> Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for
> premises cabling users and pros
> http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling
> Residential Cabling Guide
> -------------------------------------
>
>
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