[AG-TECH] Multi-head AGP video cards, anyone?

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Mar 18 08:29:06 CST 2003


that wasn't precisely the one, but I suspect the technology is similar.

Aha, yes:

>Accelerators: independent RIVA 128ZX graphics engines

--bob

At 08:23 AM 3/18/2003 -0600, Steve Slocombe wrote:
>Bob, I'm wondering if the four head agp card you saw is this one, which
>looks interesting.
>
>http://www.asanst.com/mvp/elk-mvpprose.htm
>
>
>S.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > Behalf Of Robert Olson
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 07:34
> > To: Osland, CD (Chris) ; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Multi-head AGP video cards, anyone?
> >
> >
> > At 10:29 AM 3/18/2003 +0000, Osland, CD (Chris) wrote:
> > >I looked everywhere for a 4-head AGP card at a recent trade show;
> > >as you say, all of them seem to be PCI.  The only chink in the
> > >armour is the Matrox Parhelia, with three outputs, on AGP.
> >
> > I've seen one 4-head AGP card; unfortunately, it was built with four PCI
> > display chips and an AGP/PCI bridge chip (with an onboard PCI bus).
> > Performance wasn't too great.
> >
> > --bob
> >
> >




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