Hello there,

I wonder if I may ask a quick question regarding multi-channel configurations, thank you. Apologies if it's a bit noob!

Could a multichannel configuration be used to create a system where there were two machines (identical hardware specifications) linked together to share the load for rendering for a single display output on the master machine?

In other words, without wanting to set up a multi-display system (at this time) is there any performance benefit with using two machines together for a single display, connected to the master?

I am trying to weigh up the relative costs involved with having a very expensive single machine with mutliple CPUs/Cores Vs two less expensive machines in Mutlichannel configuration sharing the load?

Given that the Xeon E5s are just around the corner, and the EVGA SR-X arriving onto the market with it I wonder if a machine with a couple of E5-2690's and a couple of GTX690's would outperform say two machines running with an i7 3960X and whatever graphics card would sit in the master (let's say a GTX690 or two in SLI) - in the context of P3D.

There would be arguments for both but it would be good to get someone else's opinion on this forum as to what benefit if any using a Multichannel configuration would offer in this scenario?

Thanks very much for your advice.

Kind regards,

James Gillies

Thanks Jim.

Kind regards,

James

Hi Jim,

Thanks very much for this, some good advice - duly noted. It's certainly an exciting time where we can talk about how we might need to account for the hardware being "too powerful" for the software!

I look forward to seeing how the optimisations are introduced by the P3D team.

Thanks again for your time to answer my question.

KInd regards,

James