Flexibility of GPUs never will reach FPGAs, but I did a GPU from FPGA that also handled a camera.
No question there. You can program them to do just about any function. I just meant to emphasise the large untapped potential of all those gpu's that are out there.
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Probably you can buy complete cards from XILINX (US) directly. (Perhaps from Lattice, Altera or Intel?)
Probably an FPGA card would be helpful in picture manipulation, 3D or phisics calculations, etc.
I doubt i'd be inclined to buy one. You seems to know a bit about them- can they be a plug and play boost? i mean will they boost most system functions without any special programming?
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I use an old S3 Virge and two TNT2 video card, so it's a real alternative to me. :)
Do you maybe have PCI-E on one of your machines? i had an old geforce 6610xl about somewhere that's no use to me and you can have if you want it? but i might have already got rid of it. It was having heat probs. The fan was full of dust stopping it spinning so took it appart cleaned and re-lubricated the fan. Replaced the dried thermal paste with arctic silver and works fine but i'd already replaced it :)
Ebay when i was looking had a lot of 4 of those FPGA chips and other lots if you was looking to make an accelerator card? or a few 'development' cards.
Probably you can buy complete cards from XILINX (US) directly. (Perhaps from Lattice, Altera or Intel?)
Probably an FPGA card would be helpful in picture manipulation, 3D or phisics calculations, etc.
I doubt i'd be inclined to buy one. You seems to know a bit about them- can they be a plug and play boost? i mean will they boost most system functions without any special programming?
nope. Totally useless without dedicated programming. Currently there's nothing worth spending your money on the hardware for.
Probably you can buy complete cards from XILINX (US) directly. (Perhaps from Lattice, Altera or Intel?)
Probably an FPGA card would be helpful in picture manipulation, 3D or phisics calculations, etc.
I doubt i'd be inclined to buy one. You seems to know a bit about them- can they be a plug and play boost? i mean will they boost most system functions without any special programming?
I heard about some coprocessor boardd that support the development with their libraries, but i think most of these applications needs software development too.
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I use an old S3 Virge and two TNT2 video card, so it's a real alternative to me. :)
Do you maybe have PCI-E on one of your machines? ...
Sorry... but i like these cards... and they are big survivors...
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Ebay when i was looking had a lot of 4 of those FPGA chips and other lots if you was looking to make an accelerator card? or a few 'development' cards.
I tried to do an accelerator card about a one or two year ago...
( sorry... my time-sense isn't to good ) The main problem was the low speed of the PCI-bus ( only 32 Bit, 33 MHz ). The PCI-E bus is much much much faster.
I'm thinking on doing a new card, but it needs lot of time. :-(
RE: Flexibility of GPUs
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No question there. You can program them to do just about any function. I just meant to emphasise the large untapped potential of all those gpu's that are out there.
I doubt i'd be inclined to buy one. You seems to know a bit about them- can they be a plug and play boost? i mean will they boost most system functions without any special programming?
Do you maybe have PCI-E on one of your machines? i had an old geforce 6610xl about somewhere that's no use to me and you can have if you want it? but i might have already got rid of it. It was having heat probs. The fan was full of dust stopping it spinning so took it appart cleaned and re-lubricated the fan. Replaced the dried thermal paste with arctic silver and works fine but i'd already replaced it :)
Ebay when i was looking had a lot of 4 of those FPGA chips and other lots if you was looking to make an accelerator card? or a few 'development' cards.
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nope. Totally useless without dedicated programming. Currently there's nothing worth spending your money on the hardware for.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA1MiwsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0
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I heard about some coprocessor boardd that support the development with their libraries, but i think most of these applications needs software development too.
Sorry... but i like these cards... and they are big survivors...
I tried to do an accelerator card about a one or two year ago...
( sorry... my time-sense isn't to good ) The main problem was the low speed of the PCI-bus ( only 32 Bit, 33 MHz ). The PCI-E bus is much much much faster.
I'm thinking on doing a new card, but it needs lot of time. :-(
Someone has just brought this
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Someone has just brought this up. Looks like this is finally starting somewhere.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=32146