On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 12:48:10AM -0400, Doug Franklin scripsit: > Graydon wrote: >> Generally speaking, you want a fairly good card to drive a pair of 22" >> monitors; this does *not* include the Intel. If you were in the US, I'd >> expect you want the 200 USD price point, rather than the 139 USD price >> point. > > There are plenty of cards out there even below the 139 US$ price point > that will work just fine for his plan. For example, any of the nVidia > 8800/9800 cards with 512MB or more of video RAM will be dual DVI out and > plenty of oomph to handle dual 1680x1050 monitors and should run nearer > 100 US$ online.
Sorry, overly terse. And also not paying attention to GPU price points with the recession. If you want to take advantage of GPU hardware acceleration of various image-processing functions across a couple of 22" (and presumed 1920x1200) monitors, you need a fairly good card. The "mainstream" cards are much better than they used to be but don't really have enough shaders for things like real-time unsharp mask. So somewhere in the "performance", rather than "enthusiast" categories; a Radeon 4850 or 4770, for example. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
