An Idea, anybody confirm whether it is possible?

[mragsdale]

How's this for an idea, you have two independent slots that could be used with two different cards just like you do with 2 pci vid cards; BUT you have an option in your BIOS to enable the combination of the TWO (same model of cards, with combining capable drivers). I think it would take relatively little work to implement into an EV6 motherboard, most of the work would have to come from the video card manufatures to supply the drivers to run the two in the machine together in unison. Makes you think, though.

Rags

[Wombat]

Matt,
It's a cool idea, but it would take a little more than driver support. You'd have to recombine the image, and that's a hardware problem.

Some company is already developing such a product, and had prototypes (was on the forum a while back). Essentially used the AGP slot like a 66Mhz PCI slot. Still needed to use their cards, so that the hardware could recombine the image.

Amiga had the video toaster. Those are still being used. They could run together, and actually scheduled the refresh so that each box would transmit its video signal during the appropriate part of the refresh. I understand that these vets were still being used to render the space shots in Babylon 5.

-Wombat