Tobio wrote:
The current mac pros video card has one DVI and one display port
adapter, so you will need to factor DVI adaptors into the mix. Also,
I would highly recommend you buy your extra video card(s) at the time
you purchase the mac! It is possible to mix and match the cards that
go in later on, but the difficult part is availability. It would be
nice to just be able to buy a cheap PC video card and use it, but that
wont work.
Buying an extra card to go in later on (say in 3 years time from now)
would mean that your only options would be a) the top end card that
apple has at the time, for a very high price. b) a closer match to
your existing card available from a repair shop through GSX - usually
these have to be for replacing broken parts and can be tricky unless
you have a mate who can order you one on the side, or c) buying a
second hand or broken mac pro on ebay and robbing the cards from it.
ah, now this is the kind of thing I knew I needed to flush out into the
open. I will want to run two or possibly three monitors. I have one with
DVI/VGA and one with VGA only (the DVI is broken). I also have a USB
vibook adaptor (though you don't get the full refresh, by a long shot,
so you can't eg watch video on it very well). Given that one of my
screens is the laptop itself (and a bit limited) I can probably manage
with only two!
The Store says
Configure your Mac Pro with two cards to power up to six displays
simultaneously for visualization projects and large display walls.
So how many can one card run? That implies three -- which will do for me.
PS if you sell off old Mac Pros from that pile, drop me a line. Just as
a current one would probably be overkill, I could probably work with any
Intel Mac Pro (need Intel though) quite happily.
I'll be checking it has a video card though...;-)
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