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Ray 2005-05-22 21:45
since a while im busy with multple monitor
i was looking through the datbase, and found:
Config 6837, submitted by Anonymous on Feb 21, 2005
WinXP, 20 monitors, 10 video cards
p4
Card 1:
PCI, MSI GeForce FX5200 chipset
No problems
Card 2:
PCI, MSI GeForce FX5200 chipset
No problems
Card 3:
PCI inno3d GeForce2 MX400, Nvidia GeForce2 MX 400 chipset
No problems
Card 4:
PCI inno3d ino 3d geforce4 mx440, Nvidia Geforce4 MX440 chipset
No problems
Card 5:
PCI, 3dfx Voodoo Banshee chipset
No problems
Card 6:
PCI Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 2e
No problems
Card 7:
PCI Nvidia XTASY GeForce 4 TI 4600, Nvidia GeForceDDR chipset
No problems
Card 8:
PCI Palit GF4 MX440 8X 128MB DDR AGP TV-out DVI, Nvidia GeForce 4 MX440 chipset
No problems
Card 9:
PCI Leadtek GTS2 MX, Nvidia GeForce 2 MX chipset
No problems
Card 10:
PCI IO Magic Magic Video 3D DX, SIS 6326 chipset
No problems
can anyone tell me how this is possible?
by my knowledge there is no motherboard with 10 pci slots
greetz Ray
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ECarlson 2005-05-23 10:47
Some HP/Compaq servers (and probably other brands) have 10 or more slots, and there are backplanes that have 10 or more slots. But I don't know what this person is using. It would be interesting to find out.
- Eric, www.InvisibleRobot.com
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Tantalus 2005-05-23 13:39
i'm inclined to think this claim in the database is bogus.
the "PCI Number Nine Imagine 128 Series 2e" is a very suspicious (aka fake) entry.
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Ralf Biederer 2005-05-25 16:52
It is *VERY* unlikely that so many different videocards work together in multimonitor configuration. Also on a PCI system you (normally) only have 4 interrupts or the whole PCI bus, in a 6 slot system 2 slots share interrupts. Even MATROX own drivers don't like that. I got anything from bluescreens to system freezes.
I have tried with pure MATROX configuration (and MATROX has very good multimonitor support) the following combinations :
1. 3* G200MMS QUAD + G450DH PCI + G450DH AGP = 16 monitors, works and is usable.
4 QUAD cards without an AGP card is also ok, but slower.
2. Replacing the G450DH PCI with a fourth QUAD card = 18 monitors. BUT :
One of the 18 monitors cannot be configured, it always stays deactivated. So I had 17 monitors. BUT : I got intermittend Windows Explorer crashes.
Went back to 16 monitors, this seems to be the stable limit.
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