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I appreciate you proving my point. High end desktops are not viable on Linux, which is a shame, because I really wanted it to work.

michaelmrose 6y ago
I give you a variety of points and all I get back is a single flip quip. This is a disappointing rejoinder. You CAN have a high end desktop. You can even have 3-6 monitors if it makes you happy. The only thing you cannot do is plug your monitors into the outputs of both GPUs. You must purchase GPUs wherein a single GPU has sufficient outputs and let the secondary GPU serve to aid in your favorite GPU compute or game playing adventure. For example https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-rx-vega-64-gv-rxvega64gaming-oc-8gd/p/N82E16814932031 https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-rx-vega-64-gv-rxvega6... This supports 6 displays and crossfire so it plays well with lots of displays and multiple GPU. Stepping up further in price https://www.newegg.com/evga-geforce-rtx-2080-super-08g-p4-3289-kr/p/N82E16814487469?&quicklink=true https://www.newegg.com/evga-geforce-rtx-2080-super-08g-p4-32... Supports 4 displays and SLI
- StavrosK 6y ago
  Is it possible to have two cards and have the second card do computations for the first one to render? I would have thought the time it took to move the data would make that hard.
  - michaelmrose 6y ago
    Generally one actually runs games on one monitor in the first place so this is the only way it even could work. Work can be divided up by frame for example. Crossfire and SLI rely on a high speed interconnect and game specific support.
account42 6y ago
Dual GPU is a much smaller niche than "high end desktops".
- michaelmrose 6y ago
  Multiple gpus are even supported just not outputs hooked up to both GPUs as a single X screen. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#Enabling_SLI https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#...

michaelmrose 6y ago

I give you a variety of points and all I get back is a single flip quip. This is a disappointing rejoinder. You CAN have a high end desktop. You can even have 3-6 monitors if it makes you happy. The only thing you cannot do is plug your monitors into the outputs of both GPUs. You must purchase GPUs wherein a single GPU has sufficient outputs and let the secondary GPU serve to aid in your favorite GPU compute or game playing adventure. For example https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-rx-vega-64-gv-rxvega64gaming-oc-8gd/p/N82E16814932031 https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-radeon-rx-vega-64-gv-rxvega6... This supports 6 displays and crossfire so it plays well with lots of displays and multiple GPU. Stepping up further in price https://www.newegg.com/evga-geforce-rtx-2080-super-08g-p4-3289-kr/p/N82E16814487469?&quicklink=true https://www.newegg.com/evga-geforce-rtx-2080-super-08g-p4-32... Supports 4 displays and SLI

StavrosK 6y ago
Is it possible to have two cards and have the second card do computations for the first one to render? I would have thought the time it took to move the data would make that hard.
- michaelmrose 6y ago
  Generally one actually runs games on one monitor in the first place so this is the only way it even could work. Work can be divided up by frame for example. Crossfire and SLI rely on a high speed interconnect and game specific support.

account42 6y ago

Dual GPU is a much smaller niche than "high end desktops".

michaelmrose 6y ago
Multiple gpus are even supported just not outputs hooked up to both GPUs as a single X screen. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#Enabling_SLI https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#...