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[perkiset]

Installed another ATI dual head card in the 8 core tonight and hooked up a couple more monitors.
Hoodathunk that 4 monitors just wasn't enough and I'd have to go to 6?

I wonder how long I can hold out before I go to 8. Ridiculously cool.
Of course, my nuts glow in the dark now, but I understand that these sort of radiation problems just sort of go away.

[nutballs]

there is a simple solution to the rads problem.
buy a roll of lead foil and line the underside of your desk.

then your upper half will only glow.

I have been considering the jump to 4, which i can do right out of the box with my rig, but that just seems a bit over the top for me... let alone 6. lol

[perkiset]

Full disclosure: I am not using monitors 5 & 6 for work. I decided to make my 8 core my recording rig for music as well, since it is far and away the most powerful machine I have here. So I put another keyboard and mouse and two more monitors on it just off to the left... so when I am recording I simply move my chair there and use that keyboard and mouse (works like a charm) and those monitors for my recording apps. I love this machine, mang. It's the shizzle.

[jammaster82]

Well it may help to nuke out bad thingies in your body and prolong your life?

  sounds sweet!

[jairez]

Soooooooo .... are you now growing "thingies" under your tonge?     Are you afraid to look?   

Thanx, NB ... like I needed to know about these 

[perkiset]

 

I know ... that was one of NB's sicker posts. And the comments were classic. (No, BTW, no tongue thingies).

Side note: Nirvana hiccups! Strangely, when I reboot, my Mac gets confused about what monitors I have. I've no rebooted several times and it almost always goes like this:

Reboot 1: monitors 1,2,5 & 6 come up, profile completely forgotten.
Reboot 2: monitors 1,2,3,4 come up, my original profile (pre-5 & 6)
Reboot 3: all monitors come up, profile is A-OK.

WTF? It all smoothes out by the3rd reboot (sometimes by the second, bypassing the Reboot 2 scenario) but this is seriously weird. I wonder if the Mac development team actually tests with lots of monitors as hard as they should... 

[vsloathe]

Yeah I'm using 3 laptops + 2 desktops with synergy and a KVM switch. There's never enough screen real estate. Just never enough.

Each of the linux boxes has at least 4, if not 6 or 8, desktops.

[nutballs]

actually, apparently we all have those, just they have either bonded with the bottomside of our tongue, or they are really short. You can apparently scrape them loose.

On the monitors perk. Are they all different models/brands?
Is it two graphic cards your using? are they different?

If they are different components you may be having timing issues.
What you should try is rebooting, and when you get a 'bad boot' unplug the bad monitors from the puter and wait a few seconds then plug back in. I bet they then come up. or just trun them off for a few seconds.

[perkiset]

Different monitors, same graphics card (ATI Radeon 2600XT HD dual head)

I did try exactly that, we think the same. Also tried "Detect Monitors" which, most interestingly, did not find the <currently off 2> monitors. I think the problem is more with the graphics cards than the tubes. Thanks tho!

[DangerMouse]

Out of interest what size monitors are all these?  Sounds like an impressive setup... apart from the mac 

DM

[perkiset]

a 30" in the middle, 2 19s on close left and right, a 22" turned tall on my left, then 2 17s off to the left for my music gear. There are an additional 5 monitors around me for other purposes, which is part of the radiation problem

LOL "apart from the mac" dood ... it's an 8 core with 10G ram with one of the finest GUI's on the planet! It's the first single machine I've ever owned that can keep up with me. I know you're kidding, but I'd love to hear it if you can find a finer tool for the job...

[DangerMouse]

... it's an 8 core with 10G ram with one of the finest GUI's on the planet!

Wow all that with only one mouse button! Seriously though thats a spectacular sounding rig, I didnt even realise you could buy motherboards that would provide 8 cores, is it duel quad core or... ? I feel in need of an upgrade!

Hope you've got some serious ventillation in that room with all those monitors, I live in a cold corner of the UK and I boil with just a basic PC running permently.

DM

[perkiset]

2 button + scroll wheel Logitech mang - and an MS ergo keyboard. No need to go with the so-called MightMouse or crapple keyboard - probably the low point in their product line.

I don't know what purchasing motherboards for dual-quads is like... the Apple motherboard is a dual processor with 4 cores in each processor. I've not tried to purchase a board for a *nix box that is its equal.

After being a DOS guy from the late 70s to the early 90s, a Windows guy from about '91 to Linux in 2000 and to the Mac about 3 years ago (although I've always been an Apple fanboi and owned my first Mac in 1985, my money was always made elsewhere) I'll never go back. It is hands down, the finest package I've ever worked on, bar none.

I'll try to clean up my desk a bit  and snap a quick photo later to show you what it all looks like.

And yes, we have to keep the air conditioning very controlled, because here in hell Phoenix, the temperature can spiral out of control very easily, especially right now.

[nutballs]

my dell is a dual core 2 xeon duo something or other. they now sell dual quads.
so meh, whatever 

[perkiset]

I'd imagine that once you get past the dual bus thang, multi-cores are much less hassle. Intel says that 8 cores and even 16 on a single die are within striking distance.

Hearing about the multi-core graphics processors and people starting to talk about dozens of cores almost offhandidly... I'd say that Moore's Law will be safe for quite a while now.