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 1GmKVW-0003Er-HQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:33:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAL1Uq8Q021035; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:30:52 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAL1SdIK008023 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:28:39 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so4408407nfb for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:28:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=KRHZpNwFGEaJjQh1viVFgAv2QP2f8gmZ37EwcMqtsAgbSDwBNg47WgEUSRSQWxbzk++4morOZG/qlQH8ks1LPWYRHPxim7hfU6McIdWWpEskeAlqiZf1Nh1L96ZPD8rFktPiRFxcrmw+H0SrTIq/mdhNiF4NxBLzV7VWqMPUkuA= Received: by 10.82.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr830388buc.1164072519141; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.2 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:28:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640611201728k6b0bca9dn53bec7ad98a4434d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:28:39 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia w/ water cooling? In-Reply-To: <200611201807.26446.mcbrides9@comcast.net> 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-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7573e9640611201249p5c9f71e2p70fbb825a4800349@mail.gmail.com> <200611201807.26446.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 827fbc74d625dc4b X-Archives-Salt: 555b7116-9342-431c-a98a-5fab7930e569 X-Archives-Hash: 45db0b746a1fee20c195a83fb757a908 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. > 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? 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. 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list