This is just for a home system - so a little bit of work and a
little gaming. I'm not much of a high end gamer.
And I'm somewhat on a budget so any high end graphics that your
talking about are out of my range. It's fun to dream, though. :)
-Rob.
| --==( Christopher Allen said these things on 20001207.2009 )==--
|
| On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Bob Miller wrote:
|
| > In other words, it's a nice display, but a crappy video card. SGI
| > also sells the flat panel with an Oxygen video card or an analog video
| > adaptor, but I have no experience with those.
| They also have a nice digital adapter called the multilink which will let
| you plug a, who'd have thought, G400 into the 1600SW. (I just looked this
| up -- I didn't know this last message :-). This is a pure digital honkin'
| good signal -- with one catch: You have to use Matrox's optional daughter
| card to get digital out on your G400. 1600SW graphics card matrix:
| http://www.sgi.com/flatpanel/superwide_savvy.html
|
| Buy.com has the 1600SW with multilink for $1438 shipped.
| Onvia.com has the G400 daughter card for $219 shipped.
|
| With the daughtercard you can hook up two displays, but only one can be a
| digital flat panel. The other would be a CRT or analog flat panel; and the
| digital flat panel would be a secondary display -- in Windows, anyway.
| (Maybe X4 lets you do it either way.):
| http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/mill_g400/applications/dh/home.cfm
|
| Daughtercard page:
| http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/upgrades/flat_panel_g400.cfm
|
| BTW tyhe daughtercard page says max resolution of its flat oanel output is
| 1280x1024. But actually, if you plug it into a 1600SW, it will give you
| 1600x1024.
|
|
| Q: Is this for work or gaming?
|
| -Chris
