I picked up a Quad head G200 PCI a few years ago on eBay, still got it, never had more than one monitor on it though, just never got the cash or the space to splash out on a multi-monitor workstation. One thing I noticed though, when installing it with Win2K I needed to boot into safe more to install the drivers correctly. Can't remember exactly what went on when windows tried to apply it standard VGA drivers to the four chips in normal mode, but I think it just hung. XP is probably much better behaved with these cards.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: 17 September 2005 18:33 > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] three head vid card wanted > > Assuming you are talking about a individual workstation, and > not some kind of IT network monitoring box, Matrox Parhelia > is going to be your best choice for this. I have been doing > multi monitor for a decade and no other manufacturer does it > as well as Matrox drivers. Period. Nobody is even close. > > I have been using ATI AIW for a few years now... well one box > still has a couple of G450s, and ATI SUCKS when it comes to > multi monitor. They really don't want to support it, they > discourage it, you can not install two ATI cards in the same > box without tricking the drivers. And even then it isn't > worth all the trouble. > > If you want more then three monitors on one card, then you > get into very expensive Matrox commercial cards. If you want > four or five then get the Parhelia and then a couple of 40 > dollar PCI G450s on Ebay. Stick then all in, install the > constantly updated Matrox drivers, and your done. Lots of > useful multi monitor features with the Matrox drivers, plus > what PCMAG called the gold standard for 2D. Bottom line is > that Matrox has built their retail reputation on 2D and multi > monitor, a field left pretty much to them. > > I > At 10:11 AM 9/17/2005, you wrote: > > >Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > 2D text mainly. > > > >and three or more > > > >thx, > >Al > >
