Re: Working setup with two pci-e (ludovic pollet)

[ludovic p. <pl...@nn...>]

Hello,

I followed your advice and bought a MX4000 PCI... In a single head setup =
(an=20
amd XP 2700) , mplayer playing a video with XV eats only about 10%... (us=
ing=20
latest nvidia drivers)

But using the same board as secondary head (on an amd64 3000) didn't impr=
ove=20
much my situation : In this case, CPU usage is around ~32% (this is 5% le=
ss=20
than the MGA G200 I had).

I can't believe that the AGP board eats so much bandwith event when unuse=
d !

Does someone have the same problem ?

Regards,

Ludovic

Le dimanche 9 juillet 2006 23:27, Michael Pardee a =C3=A9crit :
> >Does anyone have success in running a dual head setup with two PCI-Exp=
ress
>
> graphics cards ?
>
> If you want excellent PCI-E/PCI-E performance and cost isn't a concern,=
 get
> yourself an nvidia nforce based SLI-capable motherboard, like the Asus
> A8N-SLI or the socket AM2 Asus M2N-SLI.  We have used those two extensi=
vely
> for 2-user high end gaming systems.  Paired with a dual-core CPU you ca=
n
> play games like Quake4 head to head with good frame rates depending on =
the
> video cards.
>
> However, if all you need is good 2D performance, AGP/PCI or PCI-E/PCI v=
ideo
> should be just fine as long as you use all nvidia cards with the nvidia
> driver.  Just pick up an MX4000 PCI card, the video overlay works just =
fine
> on all cards.

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