[olug] [OT] Video Card Recommendation

[DYNATRON tech]

yeah...the system i'm talking about is 7 years old, but the idea is the
same..

use two cards...more power.

use one card to do the work of two, less power.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:18 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> I just bought a Radeon HD 5750 for $150 on NewEgg. I haven't tested it
> under Linux yet as I just bought it. It has DirectX 11 support in
> Windows.
>
> ATI doesn't list it on their site as being supported under the current
> Catalyst Linux drivers, but a Phoronix article said they did get it
> running with a test build of the drivers, and that it would be
> supported then the new ATI drivers were released in early November.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_juniper&num=1
>
> It is a low-powering drawing card that runs cool and quiet. It can
> handle 3 displays by itself. Paired with another 57xx series card, you
> can run 6 displays in ATI's Eyefinity setup.
>
> Most PCIE cards these days can handle 2 displays just fine.
>
> -- T. J.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > I agree with Aric that the throughput of a "split 16x PCIE" card will
> > be much better than the AGP card.
> >
> > But, the original poster asked about multiple people using the system
> > at one time.  It's possible that the video card driver might not play
> > nice and if one users X desktop needs to refresh for a login/logout,
> > it's possible that the person on the shared display might see some
> > video hic-ups.
> >
> > On the other hand, once you get all users logged in this is probably a
> > moot point.
> >
> > Dan
> >
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