Re: Dual LCD monitors

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Blake Barnett" <blake.barnett@developonline.com> writes:
> You also have to live with the lower bandwidth of PCI, as it forces you
> to have either 1 AGP & 1 PCI or 2 PCI for it to work.  Moving
> applications and such between the two screens can be painful.  Though
> definately not a show-stopper.  Especially if you're like me and have a
> fairly static layout on your desktops.
> 
> Ideally though, you'd want a dual-head AGP card, as everything is
> happening at full AGP speeds then.  Have you checked out the latest
> model ATI and NVidia dual-head offerings?

I have looked at the Radeon 7500 and it looks promising. The trouble
with nVidia is they don't manufacture their own cards so I have to try
and find a manufacturer's website. I didn't see anything at Elsa that
had dual-head. Any specific suggestions on a manufacturer?

One thing that has me totally going in circles is the difference
between DVI-I and DVI-D connectors. The manual for the monitor says
it's a DVI-D connector, and the manual for the graphics card says it's
DVI-I. I have two guesses at the moment, 1) The DVI indicates the
connector type and the "I" and "D" just indicate Interface and
Display, respectively, or 2) Dell supplied me with a cable that does
DVI-I -> DVI-D. 

I have a single-head system up and running, and I want to configure my
personal workstation similarly. The single-head is using a Quadro2 Pro
card with a DVI-I connector (according to the Dell manual).

Thanks for the replies!
Gary