Matthias Stiller wrote:
osgHello,this is slightly offtopic, but I guess somebody here might know the answer to the following problem. I need a pc system which has a maximum number of possible graphic cards. These cards needs to support all typical features of the professional FX3xxx card generation (consumer type FX5xxx). Speed is not really an issue, so available cards like the FX5200 PCI or the quadro FX600 PCI should do the job. The OS should be a 64bit linux. How many cards can be used together with the nvidia drivers ? I guess each card will get its own display.
using pci-e based nvidia cards the limit is 2. you should buy cards from the same vendor at the same time (i.e. with the same vbios version). the sli docs from nvidia should tell you the details for that game.
Anybody experiences with such an unusual combo ?
we have several systems running with dual fx[3|4]400 and also dual 7800gt. under linux you can configure dual head as well as quad head mode. we also use a dual head setup where each head has a twinview setup. as for 64bit you should be aware the cards itself are not really 64bit ready because they get mapped below the 4GB into local addr. space. this means you want at most 3GB memory on the board or some certificate from the board vendor that the memory range claimed by the pci-e device is "redirected" with bios magic (actually supermicro does this on the x6-dai-g board). nvidia has section in their linux driver readme (76.xx). you should also consider a dual/dual-core cpu system to keep the pipes filled :)
Regards Matthias Stiller
hth,
j.
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