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thewave
02-17-2005, 11:27 PM
Greetings and Salutations,

Basically I want to add a QuadroFX 3100 PCI-x to my system which currently holds a Matrox 256Meg AGP card.

Reason: I have triple monitor support...3 - 21" Flat Screen CRTs

Desire: I want two more above the triple screen set-up (Flat Panel DVIs 19")

Current Issue: I have Maya 6.0, but stinking Matrox doesn't provide any good fixes to provide me some support in Maya. So I can only work in Maya when I pull the viewports off the main interface (makes it so I don't have the viewport go blank on me when max / min panel)

Past attempts to fix problem: I have posted on forums, emailed, and called both Matrox and Alias. Maya says you're S.O.L. from our end. Matrox wants me to install a 3 or 4 year old driver to "maybe" resolve the problem.

My solution: Get a new QuadroFX3100 and two more monitors and have this hardware dedicated to Maya.

My Problem with this solution: I know it can be done, but I don't know what issues could arise and how to fix them if they do.

Does anyone have any experience in this situation and can you provide me some extra knowledge before I go blowing about $2000.00?


Thanks for your time in advance,
Benjamin "The Wave" Dean
ktamiola
02-18-2005, 12:03 AM
First of all Quadro FX 3400 ... :) I suppose...
As far as I know there is no mobo that could hold both PCIe (running at 8x or 16x for new Quadro FX 3400 and AGP simultaneously....) Correct me if I am wrong... :shrug:

Well it seems You love Maya, since You want to spent such a great amount of money on Quadro GPU. My advice is:

Get rid of Matrox - which is a very good card but not for 3D (video + post production) and buy G6800 Ultra (AGP8x) and mod it to Quadro FX 4000 (bios mod + latest drivers will do the trick).


1. CHeck the benchmarks for QFX 4000 and QFX3400 and go to www.guru3d.com (http://www.guru3d.com/) and look at Forum for Riva Tuner section. Check the list of successful mods and read performance in Spec, Cinebech
2. Compare the price of QFX4000,QFX3400 with price of stock G6800 Ultra

The main results of such an investigation are:

1. If You buy G6800 Ultra AGP8x (what fits Your mobo) You save money ! :curious:
2. If You invest in good vendor - Gigabyte, MSI or PNY the succes rate of mod will be 99.99% :hmm:
3. The performance of moded card differs from stock FX4000 by 5% and in the ultra case You can easily achieve even better Fill Rate (clock for GPU and RAM) :applause:

Think about it...

If You find any mobo that could run both PCIe 8x and AGP 8x please send me the link...

I have never heard about such a solution...

Good luck!
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