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I think your best bet is an AGP Geforce 2 and a PCI Geforce 2 MX 400 if you want
the latest and fastest. Because nVidia is now the best, you will also get
updated drivers. Here is a search I did on PriceWatch for "Geforce2 PCI
Retail":
http://bqueen.pricewatch.com/search/search.idq?ne=29490&l=29444&qc=%22GEFORCE2%22*+AND+%22PCI%22*+AND+%22RETAIL%22*&CiCodePage=Windows-1252&cr=geforce2+pci+retail
This is the Inno3D product description for their Geforce2 MX 400 (AGP & PCI):
http://www.inno3d.com/product_mx_2.html
This is the link for their Geforce2 MX 400 PDF spec file:
ftp://ftp.inno3d.com/pub/spec/pdf/dc07102.pdf
They are currently producing both AGP & PCI cards.
Daniel.
neo wrote:
> 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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