From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GmLmb-0001wn-0D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:54:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAL2qZaS018047; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:52:35 GMT Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [63.240.77.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAL2oRHW022796 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:50:28 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-249-7-96.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.249.7.96]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2006112102502701100rg8g0e>; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:50:27 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia w/ water cooling? Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:50:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200611201807.26446.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <7573e9640611201728k6b0bca9dn53bec7ad98a4434d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640611201728k6b0bca9dn53bec7ad98a4434d@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611202150.26586.mcbrides9@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bd51e21e-0a61-427e-909d-68684ccc993c X-Archives-Hash: 07fce286a575ab24daaa6f46922111be On Monday 20 November 2006 20:28, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/20/06, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Would you know if there are any gotcha's with using SLI video cards? > > Hmm, don't know. I know that nVidia's README says that multiple > monitors and a couple of other features do not work with SLI enabled. > But I guess I would trust these guys when they say that linux users > get no benefits from SLI: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=582&num=1 > > Honestly, if I were putting dual graphics boards in my system for > linux, I'd probably want to hook 4 nice monitors up to it and make a > *really* big desktop. > I'd pay to see that. :') > > It seems > > this is getting harder and harder to avoid with current motherboards... > > From what I understan (yuk yuk) the SLI video looks just like AGP cards. > > Sound right? > > I'm not sure what you mean here? Did you confuse PCI-Express (PCIe) and > SLI? > Apparently I did. My bad. > It is getting very hard to find (new) boards that support AGP > graphics, but you probably really want PCIe anyway in a new system. > There is not any really significant difference between AGP and PCIe > busses for linux. > Thanks, that was what I was looking for. > In addition, many motherboards have dual PCIe-x16 slots to support two > graphics boards, and also support SLI for linking the boards together. > But none of these boards require SLI to be used...they work perfectly > well with a single graphics board, and you can even use the other > PCIe-x16 slot for something else. > > -Richard Thank you, Richard. nice bit of information. Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list