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jmc
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 Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: Dual monitors |
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Going to be upgrading my system in the near future. I'm not into
gaming, but do a lot of graphic work on photographs, and am feeling the
need for more screen "real estate". I'd like to have dual DVI monitors
(I have one DVI monitor now, would get another same make/model). What
do I need to have to do this? Will I need two identical graphics cards,
or are there single cards that'll support dual DVI? I'm already
planning on getting as much RAM as possible, but will more RAM improve
the performance of a dual-monitor setup?
Card recommendations? This'll be for an AMD dual-core system.
Thanks for any help.
jmc |
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Ken
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: Re: Dual monitors |
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:38:11 +0930, jmc
<NOnewsgroupsSPAM@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> wrote:
| Quote: | Going to be upgrading my system in the near future. I'm not into
gaming, but do a lot of graphic work on photographs, and am feeling the
need for more screen "real estate". I'd like to have dual DVI monitors
(I have one DVI monitor now, would get another same make/model). What
do I need to have to do this? Will I need two identical graphics cards,
or are there single cards that'll support dual DVI? I'm already
planning on getting as much RAM as possible, but will more RAM improve
the performance of a dual-monitor setup?
Card recommendations? This'll be for an AMD dual-core system.
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Matrox P750 is capable of 2 x DVI at 1920 x 1200 pixels.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/corpo/products/ |
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Brownz (Mobile)
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: Re: Dual monitors |
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Ken wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:38:11 +0930, jmc
NOnewsgroupsSPAM@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> wrote:
Going to be upgrading my system in the near future. I'm not into
gaming, but do a lot of graphic work on photographs, and am feeling
the need for more screen "real estate". I'd like to have dual DVI
monitors (I have one DVI monitor now, would get another same
make/model). What do I need to have to do this? Will I need two
identical graphics cards, or are there single cards that'll support
dual DVI? I'm already planning on getting as much RAM as possible,
but will more RAM improve the performance of a dual-monitor setup?
Card recommendations? This'll be for an AMD dual-core system.
Matrox P750 is capable of 2 x DVI at 1920 x 1200 pixels.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/corpo/products/
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And grossly overpriced unless you specifically need that card.
Depending on your slot (ooer missus) - AGP or PCI-Express, you can pick up
something along the lines of an Nvidia based 7600GS Dual DVI for decent
money these days.
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Cheerz - Brownz
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kony
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:37 pm Post subject: Re: Dual monitors |
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:38:11 +0930, jmc
<NOnewsgroupsSPAM@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> wrote:
| Quote: | Going to be upgrading my system in the near future. I'm not into
gaming, but do a lot of graphic work on photographs, and am feeling the
need for more screen "real estate". I'd like to have dual DVI monitors
(I have one DVI monitor now, would get another same make/model). What
do I need to have to do this? Will I need two identical graphics cards,
or are there single cards that'll support dual DVI? I'm already
planning on getting as much RAM as possible, but will more RAM improve
the performance of a dual-monitor setup?
Card recommendations? This'll be for an AMD dual-core system.
Thanks for any help.
jmc
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While more ram (system memory) has the obvious benefits in
doing larger jobs, neither an increase in system or video
memory will have any effect at all on dual-monitor use. For
this 2D work, any semi-modern video card which supports the
DVI (2 cards) or one card with dual DVI, will do fine, not
make a performance difference (besides integrated video,
which uses a bit of main system memory bandwidth so it is a
slight penalty). |
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Phisherman
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: Re: Dual monitors |
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:38:11 +0930, jmc
<NOnewsgroupsSPAM@NOjodiBODY.HOMEus> wrote:
| Quote: | Going to be upgrading my system in the near future. I'm not into
gaming, but do a lot of graphic work on photographs, and am feeling the
need for more screen "real estate". I'd like to have dual DVI monitors
(I have one DVI monitor now, would get another same make/model). What
do I need to have to do this? Will I need two identical graphics cards,
or are there single cards that'll support dual DVI? I'm already
planning on getting as much RAM as possible, but will more RAM improve
the performance of a dual-monitor setup?
Card recommendations? This'll be for an AMD dual-core system.
Thanks for any help.
jmc
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Any video interface will work, including any on-board graphic device.
Having a graphic card with two video ports is not necessary, and
frankly I don't see any big advantage to this. |
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kony
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: Dual monitors |
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 01:24:08 GMT, Phisherman
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| Quote: | Having a graphic card with two video ports is not necessary, and
frankly I don't see any big advantage to this.
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Advantages:
- Lower cost (comparing current gen. cards)
- Only one motherboard slot required
- Lower power consumption
- Lower heat
- If card(s) have fan(s), two cards means twice as many
parts known likely to be early failure points, and sometimes
a bit noisey.
Why /wouldn't/ you use only one card _if_ it meets the
need? |
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