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----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Karavidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Nvidia graphics card users | Oh, and I forgot to say Costco has the Sylvania 17" LCD monitors for $500 | now. I have them on my Mac and Win2000 machine. | | Go buy a pair..tell you boss..do what you can. | | Tony | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Andrew Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:24 PM | > To: Protel EDA Forum | > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Nvidia graphics card users | > | > | > On 07:05 PM 2/15/2002 -0500, Andrew Jenkins wrote: | > >On 11:58 AM 2/15/2002 -0800, Tony Karavidas wrote: | > > | > > >Matt Pobursky wrote: | > > >>I'm wondering if Nvidia has cracked the Win2K dual monitor/dual | > > >>resolution thing or if it just works with Win9x/WinXP (like | > > >>everyone else but Matrox). I've got a Geforce2 GTS card with dual | > > >>head outputs I'd love to use with Win2K and dual monitors. | > > >As I understand it, it's only the Geforce 4 cards, and the MX | > based cards. | > > >I'm not sure if the Geforce2 GTS is included. I may be wrong. | > However, the | > > >card I have is roughly $60 now. Dirt cheap. | > > | > > | > >Any and all Nvidia Twinview capable boards are supported, under | > Win9x, 98, 2000, and XP. This includes the original MX (my card, | > not an MX2 as I originally reported), MX2, MX200, MX400, and any | > other flavor which has dual output capability and uses an NVidia | > GEForce chipset. | > | > Oops, forgot to mention Win ME and NT4, both of which are also supported. | > | > I would like to note one thing that users should take into | > consideration before enabling dual-resolution. For those of you | > with older cards (such as original MX users like myself), you | > will find that bandwidth limitations of the hardware itself will | > limit some capabilities, once dual-resolution is enabled. I | > believe that it's because when the heads are treated as | > independent devices, the secondary head hasn't enough "kick" left | > to perform as well as it does when it is simply an extension of | > the primary driver. | > | > I'd be interested to hear from those of you with newer cards to | > verify my suspicions, if you have a TV card or the like, which on | > my system no longer (only when dual-res is enabled) will operate | > at full 30fps on the secondary monitor (works just fine if I run | > in with single resolution). If you have an MX400 or other, newer | > NVidia Twinview card and have installed the 27.2 (or above) | > driver, and you're running a TV card or similar on the system, | > please let me know if you experience the same problem, or whether | > it "goes away" with the faster card...As I noted in an earlier | > post, I'm completing the specification of a new workstation for a | > client, and with the emrgence of NView, I think that I'd prefer | > to stick with an NVidia card, but I'm not sure whether my | > assumption regarding secondary monitor/"device" performance is | > valid or simply wishful thinking... | > | > 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
