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.
