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I am mostly concerned about that Core2Duo. How do you manage to not overload it?
It's amazing how well Linux performs on older hardware. Wayland seems to reduce the resource utilization a fair bit as well. The screens on the 980Ti are quite a bit slower than the RX480 so I arrange my workload accordingly and throw some windows over to an activity to increase my available higher speed screens. But the CPU rarely pegs out, it's not like I'm doing ML shit, just building software for telemetry and automation, or working in spreadsheets.
Couldn't you switch to a ARM machine? There are some nice boards from Pine64 that would do the same thing with less heat and power draw
Find me an ARM board that supports 6 monitors. She don't exist.
www.pine64.com/boards/quartz128
https://gadgetversus.com/processor/arm-cortex-a55-vs-intel-core-2-duo/
They're kinda neck and neck on performance, though obviously at a vastly different TDP. At least if I'm reading that weird way they present the data correctly.
But yah, short of some sort of external displays, I can't think how you'd get it to support all that video real estate that I like. Besides, I think the power usage of the computer pales next to the monitors.