This is a bit of what I had in mind 90 a card. Dual head. 3 cards for sub 300 Here is a great deal on the PNY Quadro NVS 310 VCNVS310DVI-PB 512MB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card , http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-133-463 I found. On Jun 13, 2015 11:53 PM, "Stephen Partington" wrote: > I think their consumer cards and quadros are limited to 2 displays. And > the nvs line is built for 4. Now depending on what your system has > available you could go with 3 cheaper desktop cards and run them that way. > Makes me wonder if Matrox is still around doing their thing or not. > On Jun 13, 2015 11:43 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > >> Interesting note (imho), I went digging around nvidia's site today, >> trying to familiarize myself with their line of overpriced video cards aka >> quadro's. What I found was most of their website doesn't render or work >> properly, half the links were broken, half their pdf's didn't download, and >> in general looks like something a 10 year old put together (or me, meh for >> aesthetics). Wow, you'd think they could afford some competent web >> developers at least. >> >> Sadly seems every card that can do "mosaic" mode, including sli to >> achieve nvidia's qualifications to support sli were $500+ used on ebay, >> needing multiple cards of them, in the kepler (K) line of cards or better >> to achieve. I guess it's one of those ymmv/"get what you pay for" sort of >> things to support what I don't necessarily expect should cost me $1000+ to >> support my 6 displays, and really not sure even that is any better/worse >> than AMD's support until I see it. >> >> Seeing as no one at AMD gives a real darn about real linux support (hark! >> yet another COD windoze game came out with broken dx rendering, support!), >> it might be worth the price, but the childish/broken website from nvidia >> makes me loathe to want to invest there either, figuring I'll see the same >> brokenness I see with amd. >> >> -mb >> >> >> On 06/12/2015 06:45 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: >> >> I need to install and check. >> On Jun 12, 2015 4:20 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: >> >>> Stephen, out of curiosity, what does your xrandr show as a max >>> framebuffer size on your quadro? >>> >>> mb@host:~$ xrandr | grep maximum >>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 11520 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384 >>> >>> This was a big limiter for me, in the past I couldn't figure out why my >>> old ATI 5800 card with 6 ports wouldn't support a full, single framebuffer, >>> but was internally limited to 8192x8192, with the 6xxx+ supporting >>> 16384x16384. Xorg wasn't too forthcoming with that info, and it was prior >>> to xrandr support in their drivers, so totally left me scratching my head >>> until escalating with AMD support to an engineer with a clue that told me >>> that. >>> >>> With the advent of 4k displays, they still seem limited to that, which >>> means I can only do 4x wide until vendors give to open that up. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -mb >>> >>> >>> On 06/12/2015 03:55 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >>> >>> Next time I have an absolute need to upgrade hardware, I plan on >>> avoiding ati/amd at all costs. After dealing with them for a good 5 years >>> as the only real viable option to run my displays, only to be wrought with >>> constant disappointment, problems, and frustration. Buying highly >>> overpriced quadro cards might be money well spent at this point, but I >>> still despise nvidia that they're really little other than rebranded, and >>> marked-up normal video cards with driver-locked (to bios-id) features. >>> >>> That said, going to set up some ebay agents to look for decent quadro's >>> to snipe. I had good luck getting my last few amd cards that way on the >>> cheap, gotta love jbidwatcher for cheating some other person with a >>> last-second bid. >>> >>> Thanks as always for the input Stephen. >>> >>> -mb >>> >>> >>> On 06/12/2015 03:20 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: >>> >>> I have almost given up on ATI, if i want just multiple screens i would >>> look into the Quadro NVS cards. Such as the NVS 510 or the K1200. They may >>> be very proprietary to get running, but my success with Nvidia cards in >>> both linux and windows really makes it worthwhile. These cards will only do >>> a single monitor, but they are cheap enough to run 2 cards with reasonable >>> usability. or one NVS and one more Gamer friendly card. >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >