From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RPB0R-00081o-A8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:40:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D970221C0E1; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62DD21C0B3 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0F52080145 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:38:33 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:38:31 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Another hardware thread Message-ID: <20111112103831.7ebd28aa@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20111112005129.003a54d3@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs82 (GTK+ 2.24.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/fM1GmPJV7GVIynkU31VQgpg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 727d079a-05fe-4946-b5f9-f9dffa90b16f X-Archives-Hash: a86f0ba124896c4e8328c89753a80468 --Sig_/fM1GmPJV7GVIynkU31VQgpg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:06:49 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > I'm not a gamer, but I want a system with plenty of grunt. Video > > performance is not critical, on board would suffice, except I need > > something with dual output to drive two monitors. Do any of the > > onboard jobbies do this or is a separate Nvidia still the best option? > AFAIK onboards very rarely have support for dual monitor. Besides, > having a separate somewhat-beefier GPU might be usable in some cases. > For instance, Ubuntu's Unity and Windows' Aero both rely on GPU to do > their eye candy stuff. >=20 > C'mon, don't be stingy... spare one PCIe slot for a graphic card :-) I'm not bothered about using a separate card, heck I could even re-use the one I have. I use neither Unity nor Windows tough. --=20 Neil Bothwick We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. --Sig_/fM1GmPJV7GVIynkU31VQgpg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6+TKcACgkQum4al0N1GQNeygCeP3wnlLxM8LpnTDdlvCaO4W/v Xx4AoKiZkiz/DxBB1sQzE2jgLsQT+Fi9 =pCA7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/fM1GmPJV7GVIynkU31VQgpg--