Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Colin Maddock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone want to buy a 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGPGraphics Card??? You said you were getting rid of this card to replace it with a two head one, as I remember, but otherwise would you recommend the GeForce2 MX card, from some manufacturer or another,

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread shAf
Rob writes ... "Colin Maddock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone want to buy a 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGPGraphics Card??? You said you were getting rid of this card to replace it with a two head one, as I remember, but otherwise would you recommend the GeForce2 MX card, from some

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread Colin Maddock
Larry, Thanks for the reply about the GeForce2 MX graphics card. Hope it wasn't too hard tearing yourself away from the new computer to make it ;-). There's no doubt that the Matrox G450 is a good card, Tom's Hardware site particularly mentions the "excellent 2D performance and razor

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread Rob Geraghty
"shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since when did video cards or their drivers become capable of CM, or need to be ICM aware? Rather, the video card and its driver, simply need make available the color LUT so CM characterization/calibration softwares like Adobe Gamma can modify it. Does it

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread Derek Clarke
Both the G450 and the dual-head GeForce cards use a slower less-capable DAC for the second port, so it can't manage quite the same resolution / refresh rate combination. If you want the truly ultimate multi-monitor system you have to find an adaptor available as AGP _and_ PCI and use two or

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread shAf
Rob writes ... Does it matter how it's done? The point is that some cards *cannot* adjust the gamma to give a correct display. ... You mean they don't make their CLUT available for ^any^ software's ability to adjust it, which hasn't much to do with CM. CM takes over simply because the

filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-10 Thread Colin Maddock
Larry wrote: Anyone want to buy a 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGPGraphics Card??? You said you were getting rid of this card to replace it with a two head one, as I remember, but otherwise would you recommend the GeForce2 MX card, from some manufacturer or another, for we filmscanner people?

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-10 Thread Larry Berman
Colin, I've not yet used the card. It was the least expensive option when ordering my new system from Dell. I went that route because I had planned on getting a dual monitor card anyway. That being said, I'm sure it's fine for graphics. It just doesn't support dual monitors which is my