Re: [LAU] Video card for audio (silent, low latency etc) - Linux-audio-user

29 Mar 2020

all open source drivers, the GT one is driving the monitors

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:25 AM Ben Bell &lt;bjb(a)crazydogs.org&gt; wrote:

...
  Thanks Paul, that's helpful. Any idea which one is
driving the monitors
 rather than the TV? And do you use the Open Source drivers or are the
 proprietary ones low latency friendly these days?

 bjb

 On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:00:23AM -0600, Paul Davis wrote:
  bah, i left in the line "they are both
radeon based", which is not true.

 also, proviso: i am not 100% sure that the one driving the "TV" Is 
actually
  achieving 4K resolution, which means that my info
may be useless for you.

 On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:59 AM Paul Davis &lt;paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com&gt;
 wrote:

 >
 >
 > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 3:44 AM Ben Bell < 
bjb-linux-audio-user(a)deus.net&gt;
  > wrote:
 >
 >> Apologies for this being only tangentially on-topic, but has anyone  got
a
  >> recommendation for a decent video card
for driving a 4K monitor under
 >> Linux?
 >>
 >
 > I have 2 video cards installed, both selected on the basis of their
 > passive cooling. They are both Radeon based
 >
 > GK208 [GeForce GT 710B]
 > Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450]
 >
 > 1 of them run two non-4k monitors, the other runs a 4k "TV" screen.
 >
 > Setting up 3 monitors on Linux is tricky, but the basic set up with  just
  > one of either of them was completely
painless and I've been happy with
 > results both in terms of noise (none!) and performance.
 >
 > <https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user>
 >>
 > 