Healers need an overhaul

[MiaShino]

Thank you for volunteering up that information, but I did not ask.

Is anyone else willing to ask the big big questions though? Because this lala over here is most curious about why they have five monitors attached to two gpus in one single system. What are we talking here? Editing rig? Graphics design? Certainly hope tis production oriented system or this has to be one of most strangest flexes I hath ever seen.

Can one even run FF14 over Nvlink? Know it crashes with most benchmark software. Post really carries some of that ye ol "Well my daddy's house has *insert bombastic claim here*" energy.

[Silverbane]

Is anyone else willing to ask the big big questions though? Because this lala over here is most curious about why they have five monitors attached to two gpus in one single system. What are we talking here? Editing rig? Graphics design?

Since you're wondering:
Nope. In my profession, more screen real estate means higher efficiency. It's all about maximizing the bandwidth of the man-machine interface (MMI). When I'm working, one 24" monitor handles communication, another research, the two 32" 4Ks gets covered with documents, and the fifth monitor gets everything else: tracking, scheduling, directories, and so on.

There are two GPUs because my primary GPU only has four outputs, and on-CPU graphics are, well, on-CPU graphics. I used to have six monitors hooked up, but the 6th one wasn't necessary.

Put the PC together myself, as I have been doing since about 1994: I was a senior microprocessor design engineer before I moved on to something more lucrative.

That said, new GPUs are being released soon, so this summer will be upgrade time.
I'm going to leave this system alone (since it performs flawlessly) and build two new ones (for me and my spouse) specifically for gaming; each will probably have only three monitors -- planning on a 144Hz+ 32" curved 4K and a couple of 24" QHDs.

MMI efficiency extends to input, too: I game with a Logitech G13 (good thing I bought an extra and put it in storage) and a Roccat Tyon that I've had to repair a couple of times. <Sigh> They just don't make them like that anymore.