Mixing widescreen monitors?

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Chartie, a follow up question for you and anyone else that might know the answer. So I found my Dual Head card in the basement. It's XFX GF 6600 256 MB DDR Dual Video card with Nvidia drivers. It's PCI-E. I was looking at getting another Dual Head PCI card with Nvidia drivers. Chartie , do you believe that I can get the same Nvidia software with synch capability? I believe yes because Nvidia is Nvidia right, all the same. I should be able to get the same drivers as you I would think since I believe they are similar cards. I am just trying to do my due dilligence before I order. The Dell I am looking to get would have an open PCI and open PCI-E slot.

Damn I wonder if that Dell will have enough power and power plug ins for both of those cards? Gnome are you there. I need more help please. You know all of these specs on cards and power supplies. I just have to get this figured out by tomorrow night, the sale ends Wed. A big thanks in advance. It is much appreciated.

Dan
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No problem... any new PC will have both PCIE and PCI slots. And unless your cards are high-power gaming cards, power is not issue at all.

And for a trading rig, suggest you go with low power, no fan, workstation video cards like Nvidia Quadro NVS and Matrox.
 
Thanks Chartie and Gnome. Gnome do you believe the above mentioned cards I have would be considered high powered gaming cards?
 
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Thanks Chartie and Gnome. Gnome do you believe the above mentioned cards I have would be considered high powered gaming cards?
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The 5200 is not. But I haven't followed gaming cards much, so I don't know of their power requirements. You should do a little research on that... in any event, it's not the card I'd pick for a trading computer.
 
Well I got my new 20" WFP from Dell with computer and I am sending it back. I am running a older Matrox card on 1 Dell and will be running a GE Force 6600 Dual head with Nvidia drivers on the other.

Between the 19"s on the Matrox and the 1 20" WFP on nvidia it just looks bad. Native resolution is different so things appear smaller between the 3 at 19" with Matrox and the 1 with 20" new Dell WFP on Nvidia. It causes eye strain because things are not uniform.

I am just going to stick with 19"s. Heck Dell is refunding me $230 so with that and a little luck I can buy 2 more 19" Hans G's which I like.

I could probably get another dual head nvidia right away and do the synch feature, but then I am stuck with a Matrox 4 head card so forget it.
 
Dandxg, you are dealing with pixel size differences. the 19's are native 1440x900, 20 native at 1680x1050. the screen size diff is 1" (diagonal).

a 1.05% size increase, verses a pixel diff of 1.16%


Now if you were to hook up a 22" at 1680 x 1050, (1.15% size increase), I am willing to gamble that your pixel size would be similar, thus you wouldnt feel a Drastic difference in text size.

Most monitors will spec the pixel size or Pixel Pitch.

For your reference....

http://www.necdisplay.com/support/css/monitortechguide/index03.htm



Some sizes for similar pixel pitch size

19/22 - 1440x900, 1680x1050
24/21 - 1680x1050, 1920x1200
23/20 - 1680x1050, 1920x1200

30/23 - 2560x1600, 1920x1200
 
You can try this utility if you're having problems with resolutions not supported by your video card. I added widescreens to some old matrox cards and powerstip fixed all my problems. It says it's $29, but I never paid anything. I get a message box for about 15 seconds at startup as a result, but I can live with that.

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm
 
Thanks for posting that guys. I appreciate it. I will keep the pixel size in mind next time I order. For now I will just stick with 19"s since I have 3 already.
 
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