Eben King wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, michael hast wrote:
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>> One of the motherboards I'm looking at to build the new box is
>>Gigabyte's GA-K8N Pro-SLI. The coolest thing about this jewel is that
>>it's got 2 PCI-E x16 slots! (I gather that's what the SLi means.) I
>>also understand that in order to use it properly, it should be used with
>>two SLi video cards connected with a little bridge. Do any of you know
>>how this works with Linux, and if you can use two regular PCI-E cards to
>>operate more heads under Xinerama? I want to go dual right off the bat,
>>but the cool factor of having more would be great. Plus, I found a
>>source on 21" CRT's that I can get for about $20.00/ea. (Government
>>surplus is great!)
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>By concidence, I was talking to a friend of mine last night about his
>computer, on which he has SLI.
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>http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8178.html says it
>supports SLI (that's for IA32). slizone.com is cute, but out of date.
>Dunno when SLI will sift down to the open-source drivers; that depends on
>when/if Nvidia releases the specs.
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>> If this isn't a great option, I'll probably just get a
>>less-expensive AGP-slotted MoBo and if I want more heads later, I'll get
>>them by way of a PCI card. I know that they are still out there, and I
>>don't need the lightning-fast responsiveness on the periferal monitors.
>>Thanks in advance!
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>Well, it depends how much snappy video / extra heat is worth to you.
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Right now, I'm kind of leaning in the direction of the latter. I
dunno. I'm weak enough with all the hacking and configuring that it
just seems like it might be a better choice for me to go the
tried-and-true way. If you had come back and said, "oh, yeah, that's
easy, Michael..." then I would feel more comfortable about that idea.
I've read plenty of articals on running an AGP and a PCI, though. I'm
not doing any gaming, so that may be my best bet. I might look for a
MoBo that has the one PCI-E slot and go with a reg. PCI later if it
comes up. The thing I hate about the PCI-E boards, though, is that they
leave off PCI slots for more of the PCI-E x1 slots, and I've never seen
any card that is that format. What do you run in a PCI-E besides
graphics, anyway?
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