I'm glad to hear that you are happy with my recommendation. I'm been using this combination for 2 days now and I yet to see Protel messing up the display while panning. With the G400 Dual Head, it was a bit faster than the ATI card, but occasionally I would have to do a refresh of the screen. On the other hand, the GeForce3 T5 makes the Matrox look like something from the early 90's.
____________ Brian Guralnick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl Newberry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Good Dual head video card combination for Protel. | I just bought and installed an ATI Xpert 128 (16MB) for USD $50. I'm now | running dual monitors under Win2K on a Dell Optiplex GX110 (733 MHz P2) with | integrated video (Intel 82810E chipset), P99SE, 256MB RDRAM. | | Executive summary: it rocks! | | I have only tested this a little, but so far no problems. Installation was | painless--plugged in the ATI card, W2K did its PnP thing, slipped in the ATI | CD, and there was joy. | | The ATI board is driving a 21" Philips at 1600 x 1200 x 16bpp and the | motherboard video drives a 15" KDS at 1024 x 768 x 16bpp. I have the Windows | desktop/taskbar/toolbar on the 15", and P99SE on the 21". With the P99SE | explorer pane closed the PCB completely fills the 21". I suppose if I got | another 21" I could have it so that the explorer pane and schematic is on | one monitor and the PCB on the other. The 15" is really too small for cad | but it lets you use other apps (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, Acrobat) while | viewing P99SE full screen. | | Full board redraws take about 0.5 seconds, but perhaps my current design | isn't a very good benchmark, it's only 4 layers, 10" x 7", 200 components, | 781 pads. I can't tell if this is any faster than before. Does this sound | good? | | It seems a little weird working while zoomed out so far. I'd grown | accustomed to zooming out, panning/moving, then zooming back in. Also odd | having to move the mouse so far, sometimes I have to pick up and move the | mouse when moving between monitors. Gotta get a track ball I guess. | | What other ways are there to take advantage of two dissimilar displays with | P99SE? | | Darryl Newberry | Freedom Scientific | 2850 SE Market Pl | Stuart FL 34997 | (561) 223-6443 tel | (561) 223-6413 fax | http://www.freedomscientific.com | All information contained or disclosed herein is proprietary and | confidential to Freedom Scientific. | Opinions expressed by the sender do not necessarily reflect Freedom | Scientific corporate policy. | | >-----Original Message----- | >From: Andrew Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | >Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 18:22 | >To: Protel EDA Forum | >Subject: Re: [PEDA] Good Dual head video card combination for Protel. | > | > | >On 02:52 PM 12/18/2001 +1100, Chris Mogford wrote: | > | >>I have one last question. | >>With 2 video cards is it Win2k that does the stretching over | >2 screens ? | > | >Yes. W2k has limited built-in multi-monitor support included. | >(in fact, it will natively support more than two PCI cards...) | > | >aj | > | | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
