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>Yeh, I have completely eliminated any card that doesn't have two DVI
\n> --- In IBM_T2X_LCD@yahoogroups.com, "educationk12" <educationk12@>
\n> wrote:
\n> >
\n> > Thanks for the post. I had suspected this, but I've yet to read
\n> > someone post about the FX600. I was looking at that card
\n> > yesterday and I was quite impressed that it had 256MB of RAM,
\n> > yet PCI.
\n>
\n> 256MB isn't that rare on PCI - you can get FX5200s with that
\n> much memory (and I have, although it's VGA out only). You can
\n> get ones with a DVI + VGA, but dual-DVI seems to be the killer,
\n> and few options other than the FX600 seem to exist. I suspect
\n> nVidia may quash such products deliberately to avoid stealing
\n> FX600 sales - but I might just be paranoid. Now the FX600 seems
\n> to be discontinued, we're a bit stuck (I doubt anyone would
\n> develop a new FX5200 card).
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> Just because 33Hz involves a bit of hackery, and I don't wantTwo things.
\n> to damage my T221 - although it probably wouldn't! I'm at 25Hz
\n> (at least for now). Photoshop is quite usable, although I'll
\n> admit to losing the mouse pointer from time to time. (The Windows
\n> thing where you can hit control and have the mouse pointer
\n> surrounded by concentric circles is useful.) InDesign is very
\n> nice, too.
\n
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> Depends what you're doing, but I suspect it's overkill.Yeh, in the end after I read through all these posts. I am going to do
\n> Photoshop will be worse than, say, Word - the responsiveness
\n> of the mouse pointer is more important than how long it takes
\n> text to appear.
\n
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>The Quad Royal has four 16-lane slots, which areThat's going to confuse the heck out of me when I do start looking at
\n> electrically 8 lanes each.
\n
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> Try Silicon Graphics? :-)Will do! Thanks for the name.
\n>
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> Bear in mind that SLI won't help (although nVidia have enabledWhat he has now is two 19" Sonys running at SXGA each which I guess is
\n> some SLI support under OpenGL for Quadros, so you might be okay
\n> with Avid after all). If Avid is happy spread over two monitors
\n> on two separate video cards, it should be happy on the T221.
\n> You might get tearing, and the pixel response isn't really ideal
\n> for video work, but if you want to see 4K film in its native
\n> definition then it's worth a try. Not that I've ever used Avid.
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>I've managed 48Hz in the past, butI haven't yet learned what horizontal span mode is...
\n> not in horizontal span mode (and having the monitor split in
\n> twain is very annoying).
\n
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> I've tried a Permedia VP990 (AGP. two single-link heads, 25Hz).I have no clue what you mean since I don't know what is bad about not
\n> Okay, but doesn't support an equivalent of horizontal span/
\n> stretched mode. The drivers have an option to pretend that
\n> multiple heads are one screen, but that applies to all the
\n> heads, so a maximized window also stretched onto my CRT...
\n> I gave up when the card died, but I think it was sick before
\n> I got it, so I don't think the T221 is at fault.
\n
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> Realizm 100, 200 and 800s are all fine (the latter two beingAre they 2x dual-link? That 800 card is massive! Looks like it should
\n> dual link). They may not like running more than one T221,
\n> though, depending on memory usage.
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> Finally, I've briefly used Quadro FX3400s (for my "4xT221"So you just hooked them up to see if they worked, then you took it
\n> pictures) - and they "just worked", although I didn't try to
\n> stress them.
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> > Thanks, I'm working on my supercomputer config. This forum isPenny for your thoughts...jk. :)
\n> > priceless. :o)
\n>
\n> We'll start charging shortly. :-)
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> --
\n> Fluppeteer
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