[weblacky]

Yo,
I have a hard choice to make, wondered if anyone had input.  In plans to rebuild my SGI Indy R5000 150Mhz system.  I've purchased some upgrades over the years with the hope of installing them some day...but I guess I have too many upgrades and need to chose.

As you know Indy only has two GIO32 slots (meh) and the Indy (and Indigo2 for that matter) having 10Mb ethernet is a joke, heck I wish I could do gigabit but we all know why not.  So 10/100Mb is the next best thing, so a while ago I got a couple Set Engineering 10/100 GIO32 cards.  Problem is I also recently got an IndyVideo with Cosmo compress board set....see the battle?

I know you can install JUST the IndyVideo board and don't have to install a Cosmo Compress board at all.  I've been wondering about this.  I have nearly the highest CPU for Indy and maxed out RAM.  I've capture video before with built in VINO and it works fine.  I'm lead to believe that Cosmo can do JMPEG compression in real-time from IndyVideo (not just from 601 breakout) which takes a load off the CPU, but I lose 10/100Mb networking if I do.

I kind of want to install IndyVIdeo and the 10/100 NIC and just forget about the Cosmo Compress board.  

Anyone have any experience with using the IndyVideo without a compression board?  Doable?  I feel the lack of networking really hampers the machine so I really think faster networking is more valuable than a compression board.


Thoughts?