Good Alternative to X1000

[som99]

The 440ep-flex 800Mhz versions are ok AOS4 starter machines and pci->pci-e adapters and you can use more modern cards but lack 3D due to drivers, my 440ep-flex is the 800Mhz version and I got it quite cheap and put a radeon HD 7770 in it (overkill on the dog slow PCI bus but I had it spare laying around), then a SSD for fast access time.

Works quite good but I prefer my mac mini and morphOS but that's me.

[som99]

I bought a HD5450 PCI for $50NZD so no need for an adapter, probably wont see any benefit in something higher at this point in time.

http://www.powercolor.com/US/products_features.asp?id=326

Still no 3D and no Warp3D, but really fast 2D woohoo.....;-)

Had missed that there where such a "modern" radeon card for PCI on the market, thanks for the tip

It's a nice little card for other builds limited to PCI as well as a substitute for the NVIDIA 8400gs

[som99]

NP, it's a good card too. Not too bad speed wise, would make a good option for various projects.

Like a 1RU server with only a PCI slot :-)

Yeah I have a dual CPU xeon server taking care of my my torrent seeding, file server etc it could use that as a computing card (the 5450 has opencl support i think) since the pci-e slots are bussy with SAS controllers

Got more scenarios/projects I could use it for also