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On 11/20/06, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Would you know if there are any gotcha's with using SLI video cards? |
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Hmm, don't know. I know that nVidia's README says that multiple |
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monitors and a couple of other features do not work with SLI enabled. |
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But I guess I would trust these guys when they say that linux users |
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get no benefits from SLI: |
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=582&num=1 |
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Honestly, if I were putting dual graphics boards in my system for |
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linux, I'd probably want to hook 4 nice monitors up to it and make a |
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*really* big desktop. |
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> It seems |
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> this is getting harder and harder to avoid with current motherboards... From |
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> what I understan (yuk yuk) the SLI video looks just like AGP cards. Sound |
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> right? |
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I'm not sure what you mean here? Did you confuse PCI-Express (PCIe) and SLI? |
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It is getting very hard to find (new) boards that support AGP |
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graphics, but you probably really want PCIe anyway in a new system. |
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There is not any really significant difference between AGP and PCIe |
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busses for linux. |
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In addition, many motherboards have dual PCIe-x16 slots to support two |
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graphics boards, and also support SLI for linking the boards together. |
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But none of these boards require SLI to be used...they work perfectly |
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well with a single graphics board, and you can even use the other |
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PCIe-x16 slot for something else. |
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-Richard |
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