Re: Dual LCD monitors
ASUS has some of the deluxe model nVidia cards (http://www.asus.com)
This LCD buyer's guide by ArsTechnica may be of some help describing the
difference between the two interfaces:
http://arstechnica.com/guide/flatpanel/flatpanels-1.html
Good luck!
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 13:35, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "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
>
>
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