[wellylug] Buy 3-head PC pre-loaded with Linux

[Nathan Cook]

Matrox GPU's support multiple outputs and also have linux drivers available,
they're expensive but very good!
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/corpo/support/drivers/driverList.php?list=5

On 12/12/06, Jonathan Harker <jon at jon.geek.nz> wrote:
>
> Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> > Judging by the interwebs a 3Ghz Xeon would give you 6000 BogoMIPS.
> > Interestingly there are plenty of accounts of multi-core CPUs giving
> > stupidly high BogoMIPS, but mine gave around the reported Core 2 Duo
> > readings, even though I was virtualising it on a single CPU.
> >
> > For compiling frequently I'd recommend a 2.16Ghz+ Core Duo or similar.
> > If you find one with two x16 PCIe slots you'll easily get four
> > monitors. Getting one with Linux will be harder though - Dell will
> > sell you a Windows one for ~$3k, but only with dual monitor support.
>
> The formula is:
>
> B = 2f
>
> where B is Bogomips, and f is the CPU frequency in MHz.
>
> As for 3 or 4 heads on X, I have no idea??? Are you running multiple
> graphics cards for that?
>
> J
>
>
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