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crazjayz

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So for the life of me I can't find the answer to this question, and I'm sorry, I KNOW it's been posted a number of times.

What's the most GPU cores you can have folding for either XP, Vista, or 7?

... sorry for the n00bness....novicity... neophytability....

okay i'll stop now.
 
i believe the most is 8 for windows XP.. windows 7 and vista are limited by how many display ports there are.. which they both only allow 8 display ports.. good example is the gtx 295 which shows up as having 3 display ports per card.. which means its taking up 6 display ports just for 2 cards.. i believe the 9800GX2 is the same way.. all other cards show up as only having 2 display ports unless the card has an HDMI port on it as well..
 
If that's the case, why do many places say that the max number of monitors you can have running for either XP or Vista is 10? How is that even possible?
 
crazjayz said:
If that's the case, why do many places say that the max number of monitors you can have running for either XP or Vista is 10? How is that even possible?
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because there are cards you can get that can support multiple monitors on a single port.. ya mostly see them on quadro cards.. having a brain fart on what the ports called.. then there is also a thing you can get that adds the same support but to a standard port which allows you to have up to 10 monitors connected to it..
 
So regardless of how many Pci-E slots the mobo has, you can only have 4 GTX295s folding huh?
 
crazjayz said:
So regardless of how many Pci-E slots the mobo has, you can only have 4 GTX295s folding huh?
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pretty much.. not that you will find a motherboard long enough to support more then 4 gtx295's anyways.. 2gtx295= 8 expension slots.. and there are no motherboards made with more then 8 expansion slots..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
pretty much.. not that you will find a motherboard long enough to support more then 4 gtx295's anyways.. 2gtx295= 8 expension slots.. and there are no motherboards made with more then 8 expansion slots..
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Theres a new motherboard with 7pci-e slots they might be single card slots though.
 
Hypothetically speaking here, using riser cards, or pci-e ribbon cable, you could technically hook up 6 295s to something like the Asus P6T6 Revolution, but from what I understand, you wouldnl't be able to fold on all the cards?

What if the OS was a linux distro (maximizing CPU SMP folding) but running 2 instances of VMware with Vista. Would it be possible to have 3 of the 295s folding in 1 Vista VM and the 3 others in another?
 
crazjayz said:
What if the OS was a linux distro (maximizing CPU SMP folding) but running 2 instances of VMware with Vista. Would it be possible to have 3 of the 295s folding in 1 Vista VM and the 3 others in another?
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VM's tend to use standard VGA drivers so there's no GPU folding from inside a VM.
That is unless you can get the CUDA drivers to load.

But you can GPU fold under wine.
Load the wine wrapper into your Linux OS and you can fold at the same speed as Windoze.
But I dont know the maximum number of cards you can have running under wine.

Luck ............. :D
 
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