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Why on earth would one need so much graphics power.

For those that get it no expiation is needed
for those that dont, no explinatin is possible

A moot point? Hardly. You do not seem to have had much reason to ask for 4 graphics cards at all. The only purpose I could see in that would have been to drive eight monitors. Now you have started talking about cores?

My GeForce 9500 GT has 32 cores.

See: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_ge ... gt_us.html

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I was caught out by plugging the monitor into the wrong one of the two sockets, at first. I though the board was not working, as it was kind enough to put all the initial display out to both sockets, I guess, and it was only when X stepped in that it backed off and used one as the primary monitor. At which point, my monitor went worryingly blank.

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So... what do you think about the Tesla?

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so this has nothind to do with this thread then

The latest Nvidia has 240 cores. $ of them were used to make a cheap supercomputer

Nvidia's guide to building your own Tesla supercomputer, over 720 cores

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_build_your_own.html

I have a dual DVI card on my XP machine, that's two monitor outs. I suppose if I put another in, I'd have 4 video outs. 4 cards would be 8 video outs..and your system and monitors would look like the Matrix controls...

I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't specialty cards with a cable harness for more than 2 outputs (there used to be someone at work with 4 monitors on his machine, and yes...he had the Matrix screensaver running on all of them...

Most of us are just trying to figure out why you need all that real estate/IRQ/DMA/IO/cost etc., for...

Four monitors isnt THAT unusual. My brother uses four.

The triplehead2go is such a device. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/

You could then push 24 monitors with four cards.

I cant say for sure, but I think he wanted four cards for gaming, not to use a bunch of monitors. Most people would use 1 or 2 monitors with this setup. Plus multi monitors is so old school, I am using multiple computers at once with a program called Synergy. Here is how you do it,
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_to_control_a_pc_and_mac_with_one_keyboard_and_mouse?page=0%2C0

Imagine the mouse pad you would need for 24 monitors you would have to get up and walk your mouse to the other side of the room just to move it from one side of your monitors to the other!

Yes and cars are so old school.

I see.

Check back. He said I figured it out: it bugs him that some go unused.

The reason for more then one graphics card is for gamers. Some games on high settings will easly max out two or three of the top cards. Sure, you can play the game on a lower setting with one card, but some people want the best quality game play. So, yeah, there is a purpos for 4 graphics cards, and most people that would spend the money on this setup would think of it as a crime to hook up 8 monitors to this setup, because then game play would be as slow as your 9500 GT.

BTW, the tesla would be awesome if it works with adobe photoshop cs4. I would be able to make a high res. panorama photo in a mater of seconds! My current computer, with 8gigs of ram and a Intel quad core with photoshop cs3 takes awhile to process one, and sometimes it freezes up

Also wanted to add, by cores I think he was talking about number of GPU's per card, being there are dual GPU cards that have a high number of cores per GPU, it would be way way higher then 32!!