From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Another hardware thread
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:43:03 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGUvjK66W=R-pBL4ZOVmAZe2GZboLtNFi=1-a74+p50vAw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111112103831.7ebd28aa@digimed.co.uk>
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On Nov 12, 2011 5:42 PM, "Neil Bothwick" <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
Well, those are just examples, illustrating that GPUs are no longer only
used by games and cg renderers. Some BOINC projects also use the GPU, and
who knows what else will utilize the GPU in the future.
Rgds,
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-12 0:51 [gentoo-user] Another hardware thread Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 2:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-12 4:32 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-12 10:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 11:43 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-11-12 8:24 ` john
2011-11-12 21:00 ` [gentoo-user] " masterprometheus
2011-11-12 21:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-14 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " masterprometheus
2011-11-13 1:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2011-11-13 2:09 ` Érico Porto
2011-11-13 2:11 ` Érico Porto
2011-11-13 11:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-15 23:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-16 0:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-16 9:56 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-16 10:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-16 11:11 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-16 11:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-16 12:08 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-16 15:22 ` [gentoo-user] " masterprometheus
2011-11-16 15:46 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-16 16:00 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-16 18:56 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-16 18:05 ` [gentoo-user] " masterprometheus
2011-11-16 19:02 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-17 12:28 ` [gentoo-user] " masterprometheus
2011-11-16 19:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-11-16 21:33 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-17 1:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-17 1:34 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-17 10:44 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-17 22:13 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-18 0:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-18 9:46 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-21 8:45 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-21 13:29 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-23 16:55 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-23 17:05 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-23 18:48 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-23 19:02 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-23 22:40 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-23 23:45 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-24 5:22 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-24 5:35 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-24 9:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-24 11:25 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-24 15:06 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-24 16:31 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-24 17:20 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-25 7:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-12-19 11:01 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-12-19 11:36 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-12-28 16:15 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-11-16 1:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
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