[AG-TECH] Best single machine *Linux* hardware setup

[Ivan R. Judson]

Alienware also recommends Windows XP operating systems for their hardware,
so be careful :-)

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:13 AM
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Best single machine *Linux* hardware setup
> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Robert Olson wrote:
> 
> > At 10:06 AM 9/27/2004, John Hodrien wrote:
> >> Is the Rushmore significantly nicer than the G200 MMS?  Anyone 
> >> looking at using twin PCIe cards to get four nicely 3D 
> accelerated outputs?
> >
> > Unless system designs have changed since I last benchmarked this 
> > stuff, you really want your video to be AGP-connected. 
> High-rate video 
> > on the PCI bus just doesn't stack up to the performance on 
> AGP adapters.
> 
> PCI Express.  Even more bandwidth than AGP (similar 
> initially), and symmetrical bandwidth.  Alienware have a dual 
> 16x PCIe motherboard, I'm not sure who else do.  That'd 
> enable you to have four high performance outputs with any old 
> pair of PCIe graphics cards.
> 
> jh
> 
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