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Thanks for the info below Rob. Maybe if you have time you and I could meet up and discuss the workstation. It has to be pretty stable and I haven't actually built a machine in many years. Joe > > Okay I've not looked into this much, but I could suggest maybe looking > at a motherboard with two 16x PCI Express slots which will take two > graphics cards. This way you can probably fit 2 x NVidia or 2 x ATI/AMD > graphics cards and use the video outputs from each card to run a monitor. > > It also maybe worth looking into the new AMD A-series APUs (that is a > CPU and GPU built into the same chip). Looking at the AMD A-Series > compatible motherboards (FM1 motherboards for the A6 and A8 series > chips) they have onboard video. In theory you could possibly get away > with the onboard video and an external ATI/AMD Radeon graphics card. > > This gives an example of a similar sort of setup running on Windows... > > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-780g-chipset,1785-6.html > > I'd guess at least with the ATI proprietary drivers it would be possible > on Linux. > > It might also be possible on the Intel Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs with an > external video card, but personally I'd like to stick with one make > video card for simplicity (which in the case of the ATI cards and AMD A > series CPUs you can use the one driver). > > Maybe have a look at www.phoronix.com too, they're a hardware/software > site that lean more towards Linux and BSD so maybe they might have > covered something like this, or maybe someone on the forums might have a > similar setup. > > Rob > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq