On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 11:30:21 PM UTC+1, Stumpy wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen a few gfx card requests for "qubes compatible" and lots of posts > about gfx card issues so I wanted to be sure about my purcahse so I will ask > a similar question. I am in the market for a graphics card, or more > specifically increasing the number of ports as I am going from 2 -> 4 > monitors. I figure I am going to need to get a graphics card for this that > has a minimum of 2 ports. > > I have read quite a few posts regarding problems with NVIDA and AMD/ATI > cards/chipsets, but they seem to be my only option. From the posts I saw it > kinda seems that the AMD/ATI works a bit better, thoughts? > > I am hoping those out there who have had “plug in and it just works” > experiences with graphics cards can chime in with their recommendations. > > I am also hoping to get something as “future proof” as possible, so it will > admittedly be a balance, that said I don’t need bleeding edge either as I am > not a gamer and don’t do too much with video (does video encoding count?). > > I must have a minimum of two ports Other preferences are: > > I really really really want something that will work outa the box, not really > interested in recompiling the kernel as I have some seriously defunt kernel > karma > DisplayPort would be nice but DVI will be fine > low profile (hopefully not too wishful of thinking for a 2+ port card), my > box is actually pretty small. > Lots memory I guess? > Passively cooled would be nice. > > > In terms of expansion slots my box has 1 PCI-E X16 Gen2.0 (supports 3.0? not > wholly sure about this) and 1PCI-E X4 > Oh, and on this machine I am using 3.2 but will of course upgrade to 4.0 once > its final. > > Thanks so much in advance!
Also keep in mind Thunderbolt support in the kernel isn't too great yet, and also not too much hardware beyond Apple products support Thunderbolt, although they are making a bit bigger appearance on PC's in 2018, but it's still slow. Generally, Thunderbolt is still a big headache, with multiple of ways that it can fail (although not saying it will fail for certain, just that there is plenty of risk). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/950fa0d8-aa88-4af4-a6ff-81f092db293c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
