Mat Maessen wrote: >Almost anything at this point will do that. You may need a breakout >cable to get the dual-DVI out of a single port on the card. > >The big decision is ATI or NVidia for the chipset. There are people >who are religious about that war...
Thanks for all the input everyone. I suppose what I was really looking for was any *specific* cards to either avoid or seek out. I wanted to upgrade from the card I had in the computer and ordered one on line (my favorite supplier being geeks.com). My initiation of this thread was caused by the problems I had with the card I bought. Not recognizing monitors, preventing the computer from booting and other bad magic. Eventually it seemed pretty certain that I'd just received a defective card. Not common, but it happens. It's on its way back to geeks.com now. So I just popped down to the local Best Buy and bought a card off the shelf yesterday. Probably paid twice as much as I would have on line, but it's still not *that* big a difference in dollars and I can easily return it if there's an issue. The purchase was the biggest hassle: No one at Best Buy seemed interesting in helping (I think they can sense which customers know more than they do) and the packaging of the card I wanted didn't indicate if it had dual DVI connectors, DVI and VGA or what. The box didn't even have a picture of the card it contained. I had to go to one of the computers they had on display, Google the card make and model and search for the information on line. Anyway, the card installation was a breeze and I'm now happily working a two-monitor system. Oh... it seems I've come into the religious war on the ATI side. Is it necessary to buy a uniform or get some kind of gang-style tattoo or something? Do let me know... -- 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.
