For my 2c worth, we found the nvidia quadro nvs400 to be stable but massively underpowered for refresh and quality display in a multiscreen enviroment. I doubt we would ever use this card again, but it is stable and does "work"
We replaced with a matrox pci express 4 way card and saw big improvment (aside from some driver issues quirks) Peter >> Hello Fred, Chris, and AG-Tech, >> Have you heard of anyone successfully using two NVIDIA multi-monitor cards >> such as GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3 PCI-Express or NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 >> Graphics Cards? On the other hand, are there any recommendations besides >> Matrox video cards for requirements of a three video card connection, two >> projectors(PCI)/one control monitor(AGP)running under FC4 or WinXP node? >> Thank you very much for all your help, >> John Langkals >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On >> Behalf >> Of Fred Dech >> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:48 AM >> To: Christoph Willing >> Cc: John Langkals; ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov >> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH]Video cards >> we have a couple nodes using Xentera GT 4 cards on Windows. they work. >> but we have had a problem with the VICs chewing up more than their fair >> share of the processors. whether this symptom is directly related to >> the Xentera, as we suspect, since we have another identical node using >> multiple display cards, >> two Matrox G200 Muti-Monitor >> one NVIDIA Qaudro FX 500 >> which handles itself quite well, >> we haven't ascertained for sure. we haven't tested swapping out the >> Xenteras for a couple of important reasons. and the problem on those >> systems has not been a priority as of yet. >> --fred >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:46PM, Christoph Willing said: >> > >> > On 31/08/2005, at 7:15 AM, John Langkals wrote: >> > >> > >Hello AG Tech, >> > > >> > >Has anyone used Xentera GT video cards in the display box of your >> > >Access Grid? >> > >> > John, >> > >> > We have a node here in another department at UQ which is using a >> > Xentera GT card. They found it impossible to achieve a single desktop >> > across the four outputs under Linux (their first choice) and their >> > current status is: "We have it working under windows, but even that was >> > a stretch." >> > >> > >> > chris >> > >> > >> > Christoph Willing Ph: +61 7 3365 8350 >> > QPSF Access Grid Manager >> > University of Queensland
