Public Release of MorphOS 2.6 & Introduction of PowerMac Support

[Karlos]

Sorry Piru, you were pipped to the post by 11 minutes. However, as your announcement contained some additional useful info, I merged it in

[Karlos]

Boy are my panties wet!!!

Pee pee time?

[Karlos]

Now that more expandable G4 boxes are supported, I might have to have a nosey on ebay

Never really fancied the mac mini much.

[Karlos]

Bloody hell, almost £100 for a licence key? :shocked:

You have to pay for your vices mate

[Karlos]

And YOU'RE sadly misinformed if you think that either the Nvidia 7900 or an ATI 9250 represent modern computing.

They've certainly moved on a lot since then. Even my GTX275 (linux runs fine on) is distinctly old news now.

[Karlos]

Are you sure you don't confuse OS4 with MorphOS too much here?

Bit of a low blow. Would this be the same OS4 I used MPlayer to watch media on the "most crippled hardware ever" (A1 XE) via my network when my PC's display card died?

It may not have been H264, but according to most people, this feat ought to be completely impossible since OS4 is so epically slow and the hardware so completely broken.

[Karlos]

Thanks Karlos. I have a GTX 295 in my Windows tower and even it is a couple generations behind and a new GTX 480 runs rings around it.  Nice to see that there are a few people on this forum who still keep up with PC hardware specs and don't go thru life wearing Amiga or MOS blinders......It's really annoying when one of them gets on here and trys to convince me that his Amiga or MOS video card with 64MB of RAM (which is just one step above a dumb framebuffer) can compete with anything currently on the graphics market.

I'm sorely tempted to get a 480 as I got a bit hooked with CUDA on the 275. With the full speed double precision, increased cache and full IEEE 754 support, it looks a real computational powerhouse

[Karlos]

Save yourself a bit of cash and buy two or three 460s instead. ;-)

My existing motherboard doesn't do SLI, only crossfire. It was one of the first to support the Q9450 and at that point there were shenanigans between nVidia and intel. Alas, thanks to my X48 chipset, no SLI for me.

Of course, that could be the perfect excuse to get an X58 and core i7...

However, getting a bit off-topic here :-)

[Karlos]

I think the 460 only supports two-way SLI, but even without that, can't you address the cards individually with CUDA, or does the API depend on hardware SLI?

You can certainly use them independently but I think there's a performance leverage with SLI. As I've only the one card atm, I've not looked too deeply into it but I think it makes sharing large working datasets between the GPUs that much easier.