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At 12:42 PM 6/30/99 -0500, Hinton Clabaugh wrote:
>As NHbob has described, Matrox offers dual card capability under NT ( I run
>4.0, SP 4). The Matrox website has a new FAQ in the Support section which
>gives details, but the bottom line is you must use similar cards with one
>unified driver (be sure and get the latest driver from their site, I found
>the older ones woudn't work).
>
>If I were doing it today, I'd get the new G400Max, a state of the art AGP
>card that supports dual displays. You can buy it at http://necxdirect.com
Thanks for this site, it is about $30 less than CDW.
>for $215.00, or a regular G400 for $176.00. You can also get older
>Millenium 8 MB PCI cards from http://www.compuvest.com for $59.00 each.
This may not be an option for me (and perharps others on omega-site.) The
reason is that I overclock my CPU's/Bus, and this tends put stress on PCI
slot cards. Therefore, I would have to test the card on an bumped up bus
speed. Probably OK since it is from Matrox.
>They have little 3D capability for games, etc., but the image quality is
>superb across two 21" monitors. The second display with a G400 card is
>limited to 1280x1024. I believe two Millenium cards (the older ones or more
>recent G200s) will support 1600x1200, but you'd better double check that if
>it's important to you.
Ivan
>Good luck!
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <cashc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Hinton Clabaugh <clabaugh@xxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 8:22 AM
>Subject: Re: W98 and multiple monitors
>
>
>> Whoa!!! I thought you could only use multiple graphics cards in
>> Win98. How do you do that in Win NT??? Is that available in one
>> of the service packs??? Inquiring minds want to know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cash
>>
>>
>>
>> Date sent: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 05:27:57 -0500
>> From: "Hinton Clabaugh" <clabaugh@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: W98 and multiple monitors
>>
>> > I'm doing it on Win98 and NT, dual boot on the same box, with two Matrox
>> > cards. I'm using one AGP Millenium II, and one PCI Millenium. It was
>easy to
>> > set up and works great.
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: <rickinri@xxxxxxx>
>> > To: <code-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 4:30 AM
>> > Subject: W98 and multiple monitors
>> >
>> >
>> > > Have switched to W98 and want to use 2 monitors seems to be a
>> > > mystery to my vendor, they feel a special card is needed to do the
>> > > job, anyone on the list done this
>> > > Rick
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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>>
>> "Buy Low, Sell High"
>> (If this statment is used for financial gain, I am entitled to 10% of all
>profits. ;) )
>>
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