[ale] Blender and GPU.... What to buy?

[Michael Trausch]

I am more worried about the console system putting it in consideration as a virtual terminal. If no monitor is connected, will it ignore it, or will it assume a non compliant monitor and start up at a low resolution? Or will it be completely ignored for display by the firmware and kernel console?

I do a lot of framebuffer (non-DRM/KMS for now) and so if the kernel ignores it, cool. If not it could be an issue if the system decides to try to use the device. 

Is it possible to tell the kernel "don't use this for display purposes, I just want it as a processor?"

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> On Jun 8, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All of the Tesla cards are well usable as long as you load the nvidia binary drivers.
> 
> You can get cuda cores from non-tesla cards as well. Several of the gamer class cards have many such cores with a decent amount of GRAM.
> 
> You can have multiple graphics cards. The trick is to customize xorg.conf to only use the non nvidia.
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