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Am 21.11.2010 13:14, schrieb Iain Buchanan: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm appealing to your collective knowledge for something not really |
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> gentoo :) |
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> I'm looking at 4 independent VGA outputs for a church media / stage |
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> environment (dvds, videos, presentations, maybe some live camera |
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> backgrounds under text & such). |
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> Do you think it would be better to get either: |
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> * Dual 256MB PCIe x16 nVidia NVS 295, or |
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> * Single 512MB PCIe x16 nVidia NVS 420 |
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> The single NVS 420 is about $350 more than the dual 295. (There is a |
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> dual 420 option but that's another $1000 so I'm hoping to avoid it!) |
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> both are quad-monitor capable. I'm considering performance, heat, |
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> power, noise, and anything else you can think of. The 295 is passively |
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> cooled, 23W each, whereas the 420 is active cooled but only 40W, or so |
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> they say! |
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> any tips much appreciated :) |
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I would go with a NVS420. |
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If there is a graphics-card that can handle 4 Displays at once, why you |
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want a dual GPU setup? I think this would be more pain, than fun. |
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