We have another question here, Adrew Jameson says, “Hey Robbie. Is there a real advantage to running two or more Nvidia cards in SLI, if you have a fairly powerful machine and graphics card?”
So that’s the first question, is there an advantage to running two or more Nvidia cards in SLI? Can you run more than two? Is it three? Yes, it’s ATI that confuses me because I think it’s four.
The Nvidia card, yes, I mean you’re going to get killer performance if you go SLI, that’s having multiple cards right? But it depends on whether you're hardcore gamer or 3d rendering, because that’s really you know, you’re main purpose for doing that is to have 3D acceleration and an extreme 3D performance. And most systems are going to perform just fine with using just one card.
So that’s you know, but if you’re finding that you’re not getting the frame right that you want on your 3D games, which is potentially an issue if you’ve got a huge monitor that’s rendering a you know, 60 and 80 x 1024 or higher, then you know, if you’re getting a little frame rights then two cards will that.
Also related to that, if you see a benefit in more than one monitor on one machine, I was looking at this one, pardon me, it had 3 Nvidia cards in SLI and supports up to 6 monitors. So is there an advantage to having more than one monitor? And 6 monitors, that is just the matrix. The one place you’ll would ever one is in the matrix.
I used to do multi-monitors all the time. My desk, you know, you look back at the old shows, I had monitors all around me. I used to have the webcam behind me and I’d sometimes switch and you can see the monitors and I had a two 22 inch monitors, a couple of 17’s and 19 and that’s the way I worked. And I had them so that I drag the mouse over to the next one and things like that.
But then I started using compass fusion like crazy and the multiple desktops, instead of the multiple monitors and I realized wow. I don’t need to use up that much desk space. I don’t have to have so much money invested in these great big monitors. So it really depends on what you want to use it for.
There are scenarios where it’s, based on the scenario; it’s advantageous for you to have more than one monitor. I’ll give you one of those. Obviously right now, I’m using two monitors. One of them is Windows XP, running a stream, one of them on Ubuntu, which I used to actually demonstrate the system. So there’s obviously a reason for that. No virtualization happening here.
At work, my main operating system is Ubuntu Linux and I virtualized under Ubuntu Linux, any of the operating systems that I need. So my left monitor, so in this case, I need two monitors because I always have Windows 7 actually right now. Windows 7 is always up on the screen. So rather than having, because I have to see, because of mission critical because there are things on the screen that I always have to see during the day. I had on a cube face for example, then I would only ever see that screen when I’m looking at that side of the cube face or when I’m looking at that virtual desktop.
So in this case, swing that around, wouldn’t work for me because then I wouldn’t be able to see what was on the screen if something came up. So at this, in this scenario, I’ve got Windows 7 running on the second monitor in virtual box and then I’ve got Ubuntu Linux running on the first monitor. So in that case, it works well for me. But in the case where it’s just about productivity, when I was working from home for example, I ended shutting down the other, the extra monitors and switching to one monitor at one point, because with the ability to have, you know usually I go with six virtual desktops. So the ability to switch to six virtual desktops, you’ve got six work spaces on your screen.
So in that case, I found that I can work with only one monitor, saves me a lot of desk space. Probably saves a little of hydra and I, save me some money because I don’t have to have all the money invested in these monitors. So it really depends on your scenario Andrew.
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