Hooked On Composite, Need New GPU

[ted leslie]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:48 -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:19:38 -0500
> ted leslie got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
> 
> > wasn't much choice for me,
> > i needed  dual dual-link dvi ability an that starts at 7900 series,
> > i only an using two 22" inches now but i didnt want to limit myself in
> > the future from
> > potentially using two 30" monitors, hence the 7900 had to be the choice.
> > compiz spins sreens as fast as i can move the mouse, and thats over a
> > 3200x1200 desktop (dual headed)
> 
> Whoa. I shouldn't be to worried about performance, then.
>  
> > i was hoping to get two samsung 30" 2560x1600 puppies that were supposed
> > to be out a month ago, but no sign yet, and for that i need the 7900
> > card with dual dual link, and have them rotated to be in portrait mode and 
> > have a 3200x2560 desk top.
> 
> Cripes, what kind of work are you doing on this setup? I'm pretty happy with
> my (now seemingly kinda dinky) 19" FP and 1280x1024. Even then I don't
> think I run enough apps to take up the other 5 desktops ;-)

Programming, i like to have everything up and infront of me,
plus i figured, if i save 6 hours of time in a year, over 4 years (life
of monitors), that pay for the extra right there, and the rest is
profit, and i very much believe i save 6 hours a year with all the
screen space and less windows shuffling.
Nice thing about 30" monitors too, if when the 
get replaced by a better 30" 4-5 years from now,
the old 30" makes a heck of a nice HD TV set monitor,
so its hold part of it value anyways.

Tomorrow i am swapping out my dual cpus (two 2.2Ghz) on my tyan mobo,
for dual core  285's  i.e. 4 x 2.6 Ghz cpu, (total of 10.4 GHZ of power,
cripes i am breaking the 10 GHZ barrier at home! :)   )
now if i can only get linux, and its apps to make use of them,
sure i can "make -j 4" now, but i will still be
mpeg encoding/decoding,etc,etc,etc through one of my four 2.6Ghz cpu's,
while the other 3 sit thumb twiddling.
Man i am hoping for apps to become more micro threaded and concurrent
soon, otherwise it is a bit of a waste of money.

>  
> > since monitor set ups that use dual dual-link dvi might not be to
> > uncommon with prices for monitors constantly dropping, you might want to
> > consider the 7900 (or above) to not lock yourself in.
> 
> I'm not sure dual displays are in my near future, but yeah, I don't wanna have
> to buy another new card in six months, eh?
> 

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