Magma EB7R-x8, EBU, EB7-x8 user manual Video Card expansion solutions

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Note that the maximum number of tracks is achieved with all PCIe cards inserted directly into the PC. Using the EB7 expansion chassis we note the difference in track counts is no larger than 20% compared to a scenario where all cards reside in the PC, taking up all available slots.

Video Card expansion solutions

Magma’s EB7 chassis can be used to add a high end PCI express video card to a PC system, server or laptop that was not equipped with such a device for various reasons: cost , physical space, heat dissipation etc.

A question then arises as to how good of a performance we can get by utilizing the expanded PCIe bus and high end video card . In order to obtain a definitive answer we turn to Futuremark’s 3DMark® benchmarking software. Since its introduction at the turn of the millennium, 3DMark® has become the de-facto standard in Video card performance testing and evaluation.

The 3DMark® suite is optimized to work under Windows Vista and supports the latest DirectX and derivative 3D multimedia technologies. In this environment, a low-profile Dell PowerEdge server (with a built-in ATI ES1000 video chipset) was tested with various external PCIe video cards.

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