Re: Recomended dual head video card

2004-10-07 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Bill Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041008 06:44]: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Dana J. Laude wrote: > > > > > I have a matrox G450 that I picked off eBay for $35 and it works quite > > well and the price was right. It's a older card though, so for gaming > > I wouldn't really recommend it... alth

Re: Recomended dual head video card

2004-10-07 Thread Dana J. Laude
On Thursday 07 October 2004 15:42, Bill Carlson wrote: > I run a G450 dual head, be warned there is a problem with gamma > correction on the second head. From what I gather it is a hardware > limitation. > > If you don't need gamma correction, not a problem. For my setup > with BenQ FP951s, they w

Re: Recomended dual head video card

2004-10-07 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Dana J. Laude wrote: > > I have a matrox G450 that I picked off eBay for $35 and it works quite > well and the price was right. It's a older card though, so for gaming > I wouldn't really recommend it... although the card works "ok", 3D > stuff is a tad on the slow side. For

Re: Recomended dual head video card

2004-10-05 Thread Dana J. Laude
On Monday 04 October 2004 23:44, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi all, > >for reasons I won't bother going into I'm about turn a server > machine into a workstation (and perhaps occasional game machine). > > There are two nice 1280x1024 17 inch digital LCD displays available > (Mitsubishi RTD179S) [1]

Re: Recomended dual head video card

2004-10-05 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tuesday October 5 at 02:44pm Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My machines motherboard has and AGP slot so I thought an AGP card > would be best. Another alternative is to run two video cards. I did that for a long time, with an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX440 SE (AGP) and a cheap Matrox (PC

Re: Recomended dual head video card

2004-10-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004, Nick Hastings wrote: > I've had a bit of a look at the ATI web site and it seems that the > "FireGL Z1-128" [2] might suit me well. Either that, or any nVidia card with dual outputs. You can have it dual-DVI or DVI+VGA (the DVI port has the VGA signals as well, and the cards c

Re: Recomended dual head video card

2004-10-05 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:44:49 +0900, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > >for reasons I won't bother going into I'm about turn a server > machine into a workstation (and perhaps occasional game machine). > > There are two nice 1280x1024 17 inch digital LCD displays available