So I'd been thinking about finally
escaping the AMD hell I'm usually stuck in with their driver and
lack of giving a care about linux largely, and your comments got
me looking at the new big daddy 1070/1080 cards. Phoronix likes
them and reports them working well enough, but then I saw this on
newegg:
Max Resolution: 7680 x 4320
Really?! Even with 3x displayport's and 1x hdmi2.0 port, I can't
effectively use them more than 2x 4k monitors wide?
How absurd that nvidia *still* limits their framebuffers where amd
has allowed 16384x16384 resolution since the 6xxx series. My 3x
4k tv system runs just dandy on my ancient 7900 amd card lately
with oss drivers, but requires 11520x2160 that apparently they
cannot/will not do. They stupidly limit to two wide and two high
vs three wide that would keep you from trying to use a reticle
over the display edge? Not much of a gaming system card for
multi-monitor I'd say.
Argh, this is why I still don't use nvidia, even though their
purported quality and performance is better. Thanks a lot for
useless hardware, at least I know I can always score the amd video
cards on ebay cheap that *do* work.
The other odd thing I found - there seems to be a scalper market
on availability of these cards. Ebay is full of them selling a
good $200-400 more than retail by parasites soaking them up from
retail chains for profit. Another good reason to avoid nvidia it
seems.
-mb
On 06/19/2016 02:07 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
On
06/18/2016 09:22 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
Since I don't know anyone else doing a 4k
too - are you using a native
hdmi 2.0 gpu port?
Yes, I'm running a Nvidia 980ti on mine.
I'm using an old AMD/ATI 7950 with
displayport outs I'm connecting to 3x
club3d dp1.2-to-hdmi2.0 adapters to my tv's that work mostly ok,
but one
always seems to freak out
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