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I am running a dual Matrox AGP with 2 additional PCI cards under win2k and
no problems.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abhijit Dey" <omegalist@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Henri Amand" <h.amand@xxxxxxxxx>; "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: PCI or AGP
> AGP is fine. PCI is fine too. But if you are planning to use multiple
cards,
> I would recommend against using one AGP & others PCI. I had 2 monitors and
a
> while ago decided to add 2 more. The original card in my system was a
> geforce AGP card (nVidia), supporting one DVI & one analog output. Instead
> of replacing it, I decided to add another dual port card (again geforce).
> Ofcourse it had to be a PCI card. All hell broke loose. Using winXP. If I
> made the AGP as the primary card in bios, it worked fine, the PCI card
> didn't. Ditto the other way around. So one of the weekends, I decided on a
> full reinstall of XP. All four monitors started working! But only for 3-4
> days. One fine morning, the PCI card didn't start.. back to 2 monitors. I
> subsequently had to do another XP reinstall, and it's working fine since
> then. Not sure why. All kind of bios tweaking & reinstalling nVidia's
> detonator drivers did no good.
>
> So if you have a PCI card, and instead of replacing it want to add one or
> more cards, go ahead and use PCI, you should be fine. But if you have a
AGP
> card, consider replacing it. Mixing AGP & PCI seems to be bad karma.
>
> http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/search.asp seems to have a good
> batabase on what combination of cards works.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henri Amand" <h.amand@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: PCI or AGP
>
>
> > cwest wrote:
> > > Wondering about the consensus of which is best for multiple monitor
> > > graphics controller. PCI or AGP slot.
> >
> > For the use we have with it it does not matter.
> >
> > Normaly you would use AGP. That's the standard nowday's.
> >
> > However, some of the special cards (like the matrox wich can
> > handle 4 monitors) they only build pci cards.
> >
> > problem with pci is speed. It is a slower than AGP. But with
> > our 2d graphics that is no problem.
> >
> > greetings
> >
> >
>
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