First post on these boards, I read an article here about AMD releasing more source code for their ATi cards and have always wanted to make a 2 client gaming PC. I'm sure their source code won't change much doing this but I want to support AMD because of this and what better way them buying two HD 5xxx cards!
I was wondering if it was possible to have a computer that could have 2 monitors, two mice, two keyboards, and two ear phones be able to play two player games like open arena simultaneously. I'm pretty sure I'll need two graphic cards which I don't have but here are the specs for my machine right now.
Asus M4A78T-E(has two PCI 2.0 slots that are x8 when both in use)
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4x
4 gigs of ram, the fastest my mother board supported at the time I bought it a year ago.
850 Watt power supply, probably need a bigger one if I need two GPU's
So if it is possible is my system fast enough? I haven't bought a graphic card yet as I was holding off on getting dual cards to link together. I was thinking I could get another monitor, unlink them, and have two clients going at the same time. If this is possible do I need much faster GPU's to do this?
Also, I'm sure I'd have to get another sound card but that is no biggie.
Right now I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 but could use any distro if need be, Gentoo go me started using Linux 100% on my personal computers so I could figure out pretty much any distro.
I was wondering if it was possible to have a computer that could have 2 monitors, two mice, two keyboards, and two ear phones be able to play two player games like open arena simultaneously. I'm pretty sure I'll need two graphic cards which I don't have but here are the specs for my machine right now.
Asus M4A78T-E(has two PCI 2.0 slots that are x8 when both in use)
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4x
4 gigs of ram, the fastest my mother board supported at the time I bought it a year ago.
850 Watt power supply, probably need a bigger one if I need two GPU's
So if it is possible is my system fast enough? I haven't bought a graphic card yet as I was holding off on getting dual cards to link together. I was thinking I could get another monitor, unlink them, and have two clients going at the same time. If this is possible do I need much faster GPU's to do this?
Also, I'm sure I'd have to get another sound card but that is no biggie.
Right now I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 but could use any distro if need be, Gentoo go me started using Linux 100% on my personal computers so I could figure out pretty much any distro.
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