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" <
michael@butash.net> 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 $1000+ to
> support my 6 displays, and really not sure even that is any better/worse
> than AMD's support until I see it.
>
> Seeing as no one at AMD gives a real darn about real linux support (hark!
> yet another COD windoze game came out with broken dx rendering, support!),
> it might be worth the price, but the childish/broken website from nvidia
> makes me loathe to want to invest there either, figuring I'll see the same
> brokenness I see with amd.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 06/12/2015 06:45 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
> I need to install and check.
> On Jun 12, 2015 4:20 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael@butash.net> wrote:
>
>> Stephen, out of curiosity, what does your xrandr show as a max
>> framebuffer size on your quadro?
>>
>> mb@host:~$ 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.
>>
>>
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