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Daniel
I have discovered that the manufacturer is just as important as the chipset.
I tried 2 TNT2 PCI cards that were not from major manufacturers and the
image quality was poor. I then put in an old PCI card that is not fast or
feature rich but the image is very sharp. It appears that how the rest of
the board is constructed makes a big difference. I suggest sticking to major
manufacturers. Unfortunately, ATI is the only major company still making PCI
cards. I tried their RADEON PCI but it is not compatible with their RADEON
64 MB DDR AGP card for dual monitors.
The two monitors are really great for trading. It is great to have RT quotes
& charts on 1 screen and have my brokerage on the other. Anyone trading
without 2 monitors is missing out.
neo
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel Martinez
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 8:45 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: OFF TOPIC? Re: Dual Monitors
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=%22GEFORC
E2%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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