How much process dose it put on the CPU??

[iampedro]

I am building a system and I intend to put the Parhelia 512 128meg in my new system with 3 monitors.. Now, I am currious should I be worried about my cpu with that system... I intend to have a amd 2000... or 1800.. But if the video card with having 3 monitors on it will tax it even more do you think having a dual processor system will be better?

[Greebe]

*Sigh*... the amount of monitors on the cards speed is directly proportional to how many pixels displayed only. How many monitors has no effect on cpu load... never has, never will, they are passive devices.

as I have stated before...

To get an idea of how SH vs TH mode works in relation to fps compare the same amount of pixels in the different modes and the frame rate is directly proprotional to the total displayed pixels.

Example: (for comparative purposes only! Not indicative of real Parhelia speed)

SH @ 1600x1200 res = 1.92 million pixels = ~100fps

TH @ 3072x768 res = 2.36 million pixels = ~77.1fps

TH @ 2400x600 res = 1.44 million pixels = ~125fps

[iampedro]

Are you able to watch wintv on all your monitors?

That is interesting I am looking at your system that you have built and I am going to be building a system sorta like that but better..

I intend to have 17",20"17" monitors, AMD 1800 XP, Asus VIA A7V333 w/RAID, DMX 6Fire, Parhelia 128, MAXTOR D740X 60 Gig (2) raid 1, LiteOn 32x CDRW, 8x DVD, Asus 52x Cdrom, Creative Labs 56k V.92 modem, 1 gig DDR PC2700 ram...

Right now the total comes out to $1600..

[iampedro]

But that system will last me quite some time... If you look at it .... I don't intend to purchase this system till X-Mas if all possilbe I just hope that my other systems hold out until then... Andl also that the prices will come down at least 300 or more dollars... Which they probbly will...

[WaltC]

Re: How much process dose it put on the CPU??

Originally posted by iampedro
I am building a system and I intend to put the Parhelia 512 128meg in my new system with 3 monitors.. Now, I am currious should I be worried about my cpu with that system... I intend to have a amd 2000... or 1800.. But if the video card with having 3 monitors on it will tax it even more do you think having a dual processor system will be better?

All of the cards today will take all of the cpu you can throw at them. The 1800 + should be fine. If you can afford it, however, I'd buy the fastest Athlon your budget will support.

[iampedro]

Okay... I will do....