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