For a long time, I've used RealVNC after a couple others, and while it's generally the most reliable and easy to use of those I've tried, it doesn't appear to be using anywhere near my full local network bandwidth. I'm going to be setting up a few mining rigs tomorrow and'd like a decent VNC client to remotely check up on the computers when I'm not around to use them off a KVM switch.

I've been told Radmin is a good alternative. Anyone care to vouch for it?

Edit: Should have mentioned -- x64 Windows 7

Woohoo, I'm killing the planet for marginal (if any) contribution in curing mans' diseases so they can live on to consume more energy and create sigpics showing their pollution per day stats. I wonder how many people have died from the added pollution of tens of thousands of computers running at full throttle 24/7. This doesn't even take into account the actual research which could have been done if the electricity bill $ amount had instead gone to a legitimate charity. But that adds meaning to peoples' lives? Well congratulations! (not that I'm trying to justify Bitcoin.... )

Thank you very much. If a motherboard has two PCI-e slots (even if x16, x4), are they required to permit any 2 cards, even if they use the full form factor?

For example, if a motherboard manu. says their board can use two PCI-e 3.0 cards, does that necessarily mean I can fit any two cards which claim to be within the PCI-e 3.0 specs (assuming they have stock coolers)?


Edit: After reading many mobo reviews, it seems all mobos support all graphics cards, but some only just barely permit the card to fit and will have the cards touching each other.

I plan on purchasing a few 5850s and putting them in Crossfire.

Will I see performance degradation if the cards are in PCI-e 3.0 x8? Would x4 work?

5850s came out something like a year before the 3.0 standard, so I can't imagine they're bottlenecked by 2.0 speeds which are essentially 3.0 x8 speeds, I believe, but I would very much appreciate if someone has experimental data on this.

And while you're here... anyone have a suggestion on a <$100 AM2+/AM3 mobo to purchase which would support two 5850s and preferably give them some room to breathe? I'm considering the ASRock 870 EXTREME3 @ $90 shipped.

Thanks.

// nm, server was just taking a while to update.