On Oct 17, 08 10:10:48 -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
So I have a non SLI/Crossfire setup with two video cards, 3 monitors. 2 x 19" LCDs and 1x22" Wide LCD. I don't care about 3D performance, but I do often watch movies / TV fullscreen on one of the monitors. I currently have
Video performance shouldn't be a problem. Even with shadowfb fullscreen video is fast enough.
one ATI X1650 Pro card which I think is a r5XX card. If I were to get a second one of these, what are my chances that this setup will work without crashing? One large desktop, with sometimes a movie fullscreen on one of them....
Using multiple graphics cards in one system is typically a lottery game nowadays. If you don't get feedback from someone with a *very* similar setup (2x r5XX), no one can tell what will happen to you. Especially if the two cards are not *exactly* the same. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org