Bill wrote<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Gene Buckle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geneb@deltasoft.com">geneb@deltasoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, William Segal wrote:<br>
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</div>You can stack as many video cards into a x86 (win or mac) machine as you<br>
have slots for and cards to fit them.<br>
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The problem is that you're going to get GPU bound, CPU bound or I/O bound<br>
long before you hook enough displays to one computer to do any real work.<br>
<br>
The only way to *properly* do multi-screen video is with multiple<br>
computers. A short cut way of doing that is having each machine use a<br>
TripleHead2Go. That way you could use three machines and get 9 separate<br>
video sources.<br>
<br>
EECH doesn't have (but I don't think it'll take long) the ability to use<br>
multi-computer exterior views. Both MSFS and FlightGear _can_ do this<br>
currently. With MSFS it requires a program called WideView and FlightGear<br>
can do it natively.<br>
<br>
The real trick isn't showing the scenery, the hard part is making sure<br>
that objects and effects are correctly displayed on the client machines.<br>
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g.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Gene</div><div><br></div><div>There is a System that is capable of that dual Quad Core 8000 level Opterons </div><div>It's also capable of running 4 Geforce 295's or the new 305 which is not out yet</div>
<div>and that is a preliminary number. </div><div><br></div><div>Cost is about $10,000 but that can handle it and today that kind of price is not that</div><div>high when I see top end new systems on e-bay for $6,000 </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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