simple graphics chips of the same type used in laptop docks?

Posted Aug 23, 2011 9:29 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: simple graphics chips of the same type used in laptop docks? by pflugstad
Parent article: LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment

I'm surprised, I thought they would just stuff lots of cheap graphics cards into a PC. But nowadays, cheap graphics will be on the motherboard and expensive graphics will be on a PCI Express card, for which there is only one slot (maybe two on high-end systems). So it's no longer feasible to fill half a dozen PCI slots with junky video cards.

simple graphics chips of the same type used in laptop docks?

Posted Sep 8, 2011 18:25 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

Actually, there are motherboards that have up to 6 or 7 PCIE slots. Using multi-head graphics cards that gives you a lot of seats (and you will even be able to run OpenGL applications on all of them).

(Those who have been at FOSDEM in recent years may have seen/used such a multiseat system with 3 dual-head video cards, providing 6 seats running Compizand I have seen people play a first-person shooter on that machine!).