Another Multimonitor Thread

[dividend]

vga extenders - as in extra long cable? - are a really bad idea... they seriously degrade the quality of the screen. just go to bestbuy and look at their fuzzy screens and ull know what i mean.

 

[lilboy716]

i just bought a compaq SR1630NX. google that. you'll see the spec

it has an integrated ATI graphics card. the BIOS has an options to select primary video card. in my case, i can select from Onboard, PCI, PCI-E.

with the video cards config i mentioned above, I did not experience any problem using it on 4 LCD, 3 of which are analog. I did use 1 DVI -> VGA adapter

Quote from traderNik:

Hi winter or lilboy

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EDIT - I just re-read lilboy's post, the one just before this, so I will go now to check out the cards he mentioned to see if they are DUAL DVI-I. I suspect they are, as opposed to the one DVI-I, one D-COM type)

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Just trying to design a new rig that will let me run two big CRTs at the same time.

My question is - are you sure this card will run two monitors at the same time? Reason I ask is that someone suggested to me that if a video card has one DVI-I out and one D-COM out, you have to have one with dual RAMDAC or else it won't drive the two monitors.

I got to this question after first trying to get a mobo with integrated GPU. I found a couple like these

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=766&l1=3&l2=15&l3=210

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130529

But the problem turned out to be that most people I talked to suggested these mobos wouldn't drive my two CRTs at the same time because of either some issue with the GeForce 6150 chipset or this issue with single RAMDAC.

I am no techie, so if you have any info on that I would appreciate it.

Nik

 

[FanOfFridays]

Quote from lilboy716:

i just bought a compaq SR1630NX. google that. you'll see the spec

it has an integrated ATI graphics card. the BIOS has an options to select primary video card. in my case, i can select from Onboard, PCI, PCI-E.

with the video cards config i mentioned above, I did not experience any problem using it on 4 LCD, 3 of which are analog. I did use 1 DVI -> VGA adapter

Ok thanks. Interesting that the integrated ATI set didn't cause problems with the nvidia cards. Auto-bypass or something, I guess.

The card I am looking at now is the 5200 256Mb or the 5700.