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" <
cryptworks@gmail.com> 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" <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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