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>Unfortunately, it's a case of reading the small print.
\n> >The Quad Royal has four 16-lane slots, which are
\n> > electrically 8 lanes each.
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\n> That's going to confuse the heck out of me when I do start looking at
\n> motherboards. It's like they are going to say it has 4 PCI-e X16 slots
\n> (and somehow I am suppose to know that they mean electronically X8
\n> slots). Am I suppose to look for X32 slots to get X16...I'm kinda
\n> under the impression that such a beast doesn't exist (yet..at least
\n> not in mult-slot configs and doubt there are cards for such).
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\n> Can you explain this a bit more, i.e. what will I need to lookout for.
\n> Like if it says it has four PCI-e 16X slots...does that mean X8?
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> > Try Silicon Graphics? :-)Um. Sorry, that wasn't a serious suggestion. Silicon Graphics
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\n> Will do! Thanks for the name.
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> What he has now is two 19" Sonys running at SXGA each which I guess isAn upgrade may not hurt, but I wouldn't like to guarantee
\n> almost like running a T210. 2560x1024. Which could be why the computer
\n> occassionally crashes when you open up other applications. He had his
\n> system professionally setup by Avid techs and it's a new Dell 670
\n> dual-xeon workstation, only thing I could think of was the video card.
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> >I've managed 48Hz in the past, butNormally, if your graphics card has two heads (video outputs),
\n> > not in horizontal span mode (and having the monitor split in
\n> > twain is very annoying).
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\n> I haven't yet learned what horizontal span mode is...
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> > I've tried a Permedia VP990 (AGP. two single-link heads, 25Hz).3Dlabs have no equivalent of "horizontal span" (as described
\n> > Okay, but doesn't support an equivalent of horizontal span/
\n> > stretched mode. The drivers have an option to pretend that
\n> > multiple heads are one screen, but that applies to all the
\n> > heads, so a maximized window also stretched onto my CRT...
\n> > I gave up when the card died, but I think it was sick before
\n> > I got it, so I don't think the T221 is at fault.
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\n> I have no clue what you mean since I don't know what is bad about not
\n> supporting an equalivalent of horizontal span/stretched mode.
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> Is that like the difference between XGA vs. WXGA?Um... no. :-)
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> Yeh, I read your post whenNot sure about the genlock, actually - it might just be that
\n> you first got that card. You said it didn't genlock so you had
\n> tearing. It also I think has 512MB of RAM. I'm assuming you've used
\n> all flavors of RAM. Any thoughts here?
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> > Finally, I've briefly used Quadro FX3400s (for my "4xT221"Sadly, yes. (I was using the DG5+CRT before, too - it was just
\n> > pictures) - and they "just worked", although I didn't try to
\n> > stress them.
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\n> So you just hooked them up to see if they worked, then you took it
\n> apart and have been using one T221-DG5 with a CRT ever since?
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> HasSeveral people run two. More than that is probably rare.
\n> there been anybody else who has run more than two T221s on here?
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