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I have found that the manufacturer is more important than the chipset. I
have purchased 2 TNT2 PCI cards from little known manufacturer and the image
quality is very poor. I tried using an old PCI card and it is working OK. I
tried the RADEON PCI card but it would not work even after hours with tech
support. The problem is that the major manufacturers are not making 2nd
monitor PCI cards any longer.
neo
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel Martinez
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:42 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: OFF TOPIC. Re: Dual Monitors. Multimonitor dedicated website.
I took a look at my old Multimonitor bookmarks and I found a dedicated web
site.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/
They have an interesting database where 1765 multimonitor users have added
their system configs and comments. They write whether they have been
successful or not using various multiple video cards. Configuration search
page:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/search.asp
Apparently ATI Radeon chipsets do have problems using multiple Radeon cards
in
a system. On the search page under "Display specific configuration(s)", do
a
search for configurations "1792, 1689". The best/fastest configuration
seems
to be "AGP & PCI 3DFX Voodoo5 5500, 3DFX VSA-100 chipset". Too bad they
went
belly up. You might want to avoid 3DFX since they won't be writing any more
driver upgrades. The next best configuration seems to be AGP Geforce2 & PCI
Geforce2 MX 400 cards. Because Matrox's G450 PCI doesn't have bus-master
capability on non-Intel chipsets, there's not much to choose from right now.
Good Luck,
Daniel.
neo wrote:
> I wanted to have a fast primary card and a high quality PCI secondary
card.
> I purchased the Radeon 64 MB AGP and Radeon PCI. Tech support assured me
> they would work well together. They would not. I looked in MS's KB and
most
> of the problems with dual monitors was with ATI cards. I tried an off
brand
> TNT2 but the image quality was poor. I have on order a 3dfx 5500 PCI. Not
> sure if it will work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> neo
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