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I've been using a Colorgrafix Pro-Lightning with four 4Mb ports and four 17"
monitors for over a year and wouldn't trade it for anything. Their
tech-support is excellent and their products are returnable if they don't
meet with your satisfaction. I had a compatibility problem with the first
card that I received from them and they replaced it, overnight, at their
expense.
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At 05:35 PM 5/5/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I run multiple monitors under NT, however I do so using individual Matrox
>Millennium 8meg PCI cards which I acquired on ebay for $59 each. It is the
>Matrox driver, not NT, which integrates the monitors on the desktop and
>provides special features to handle recalcitrant applications. For example,
>dialog boxes will often center on the virtual screen placing them far away
>from the application or even spread across two monitors. The TimberHill
>Workstation flat out refused to load properly with multiple monitors, which
>meant switching to single monitor to start the app and then switch back, a
>task handled by the Matrox drivers without a hitch or reboot. Finally, it
>appears that different manufacturers virtualize desktops in different ways
>which will return different width/height pixel values to WinNT. If you are
>going to the expense of buying a 4 port card, I would highly recommend you
>do so with full return privileges so you can see if the card is suitable for
>your use. Colorgrafix seems to have an excellent reputation among NT users.
>
>Earl
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Paul A. <paulha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 2:45 PM
>Subject: Multiple monitors
>
>
>> Folks:
>>
>> I'm researching 4-port multi-monitor cards. I may eventually want to go
>to 8
>> or more. From previous posts I've learned there's STB, Matrox, Appian,
>> Colorgrafix, and perhaps more.
>>
>> I'm running NT40 SP3 and I want to get up and running, without researching
>> every darned detail about their graphics engines. I'm not a game player
>or
>> doing any major 3D work, so if the screen repaints and refreshes
>reasonably
>> fast I'm happy.
>>
>> 1) Can someone recommend a vendor that discounts and carries all or at
>least
>> some of these cards? It would be nice to talk to a human who could do a
>quick
>> and dirty comparison for me.
>>
>> 2) How important are the drivers? Appian is telling me that _their_
>drivers
>> are perfect, take care of a number of potential annoyances, and will
>replace
>> any love I missed out on as a child. I assume that all the manufacturers
>> would
>> be willing to promise such things, if given the chance.
>>
>> 3) Is there a "right" card to purchase, that's a lot of bang for the
>buck?
>> Again, I want to get up and running, not spend days learning about the
>card
>> technologies.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
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