[olug] [OT] Video Card Recommendation

[aric at omahax.com]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:03:40 -0600, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com>
wrote:
> you may want to consider dual video cards for dual monitors, otherwise
you
> are splitting resources on the single card.
> 
> i run a bit of a hybrid arrangement on my studio workstation.
> 2 heads on AGP card, 1 on the PCI card, making 3 side-by-side monitors.
> 
> in my experience, when using gnome, weirdness can occur with the nvidia
> software configuring different screen resolutions, so i recommend setting
> them all at the same resolution.
> 

I don't mean to sound like a douche bag, but come on......really?
You're using an AGP card and a PCI card and your concerned about a 16x PCIE
2.0 card splitting resources?