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FluoSamsara (Oxygen)
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Posted : Feb 16, 2004 19:19
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can u tell me how that port looks like? |
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andylab
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Posted : Feb 16, 2004 20:36
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Windows from version 98 support dual graphics cards, you can have a graphics card running on an agp slot and the other running on a PCI slot. All you need to do is configure the display setting's in control panel. simply click the picture of the 2nd monitor and go down to the combo box and select which adapter will drive it! However you've got a 75% chance this will work. The best bet is to try several, you can get PCI gfx cards for less then £5 |
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medir
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Posted : Feb 16, 2004 21:24
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aloah fluo...
http://matrox.com/mga/deutsch/products/mill_pseries/p650.cfm
i ve got the g550. works fine, so the g650 will be even nicer for shure =(-;
n about the pci slot: i ve tried that with win98se n w2k n it didn t work...(asus a7v-board n n vidia geforce2 n a cheap 16mb pci-card, athlon 900). -maybe u ve got luck...
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FluoSamsara (Oxygen)
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Posted : Feb 21, 2004 06:27
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alrighty thanks for the info 
is the g550 still on sale? |
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Fresh
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Posted : Feb 21, 2004 14:51
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Yep!
In Portugal the G550 costs 115 euros. |
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Triptocoma
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Posted : Feb 22, 2004 02:31
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FluoSamsara,
Dvi adapter, i guess the port is a dvi port =)
maybe check that before you buy a new card, maybe it will work for you aswell, find out.. |
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Triptocoma
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Posted : Feb 22, 2004 02:40
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its a white port here on my GFx5600Xt with 24pins, and 4 pins at left. looks like a cross if you check close =) hehe |
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FluoSamsara (Oxygen)
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Posted : Feb 22, 2004 02:50
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thanks triptocoma, I have to take computer to shop anyway, so when I go I'll check that |
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Triptocoma
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Posted : Feb 22, 2004 03:29
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Nice, they should know there at the shop =)
tell them it worked on a Geforce FX5600Xt with an Dvi adapter...thats what my friend said it was called...at least the port is a Dvi. cant be sure of what he said =) |
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mlazar
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Posted : Feb 22, 2004 12:00
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Thought I'd chime in here.. its been a while.
Windows (at least 2000 and XP which we're mostly using) can support I believe it is up to 12, that is twelve monitors. This does require that you run hardware that has the outs... one guy that works at ATI told me at a show that if you play something like M$ Flight sim, you can get the game to use all the displays as different views of the plane. Crazy.
Pretty much all the cards out there will do the job; we are in a 2D environment, that is not saying that the proggies we like are not graphic heavy. A good card with 64 to 128MB RAM should be fine. Heck we all know many artists that we admire that were scoring on way less.
The only thing I should say is that if you choose to use multiple cards, try to stick with the same manufacturer--at least on the chipset; nvidia with nvidia, ATI with ATI, Matrox with Matrox. Someone at Matrox once suggested this when I was looking into cards to give me three displays at work.
Over there, one of the outs is an AGP TNT2 (old skool) and the other is a Geforce 4 MX Twin View. The nice thing for music people is that the twin view is PCI, has two VGA outs, and treats both screens as one monitor. For my work I rely on the nView buttons to maximize to one window but since the audio programs span across both screens with essentially the same adapter, there is not as much lag going between the two screens.
Perhaps this is true of all the dual displays. To get real benchmarks, Please check out Tomshardware.com, and tell them Lazar sent ya. ;P
-M |
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