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>Hi John. You're welcome - and I'll do my best...
\n> Thanks fluppeteer. Got a few more questions for you:
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> You mentioned something about your laser surgery being uneven?Yup, mine was Lasik (-450 right eye, -525 left). My left eye
\n> What's that all about and how was your experience. The only
\n> negative comment I hear is in regards to night vision. I am
\n> now at -450 and am thinking of getting Lasik (I assume we're
\n> talking about the same thing). One thing I hate about glasses...
\n> everything looks smaller, including my multiple monitors lol.
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> As for HD, I'm going to give that up, non of my monitors*Nod*. The NVS is an interesting solution, but certainly not
\n> have HDCP or what not requirements, and watching movies on
\n> it is very much not a priority; so the most I will use it for
\n> is Photoshop CS2 and everyday computing. The NVS440 is too
\n> pricey. About $400. I think I want to spend about 150-200 per
\n> card (2 cards to drive 2 Vps). I like the idea of using the ATI
\n> to get to 41 hz. There were some comments in past threads that
\n> between 33 and 41hz is not much difference, so I could maybe
\n> go with Nvidia.
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> The FireGL X1 cards (used to get 41hz) are pretty cheap on Ebay..Ah - I thought you were looking for an AGP card for now, with
\n> alas.. they are AGP which I am going to graduate from. Can you point
\n> out to me what specs I am suppose to be looking at? I see the FireGL
\n> comparison page, it has memory bandwidth, geometry, pixel/sec
\n> etc...all I understand is... more is better lol. (I've been so
\n> trained by the marketers of the world).
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> Also I assume I could goThe MV cards are the equivalent of the nVidia NVS line -
\n> with the MV line (which is without AVIVO)? I also found some FireGL
\n> PCIe on Ebay, but they are not the current production versions, for
\n> example V5000 or 7100 in comparison to the current 5200 and
\n> 7200/7300.
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> Of course, maybe this is all too early since we don'tI've seen Vista run on a T221. I'm very wary of Aero Glass
\n> have Vista yet. Hey, anyone here installed the latest release of
\n> Vista?
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> http://www.ati.com/products/workstation/fireglmatrix.htmlActually more helpful than nVidia's version. Other than
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> I also read on here someone driving the T221 using a Radeon 7000 PCIProbably depends on the card. If it can do a genuine 24-bit
\n> card. I think that card has 64mb. Do you think it's possible to
\n> drive the monitor using a 32MB PCI card?
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> I'm trying to see if I canI've looked at these before, but don't recall whether we've
\n> drive it using a PC Card( cardbus) on a laptop that has single link
\n> that can do 1920x1200 on a normal DVI monitor. I don't mind if I
\n> have to downres to WUXGA at 13hz so long as it works. This will be
\n> temporary (a few months) till I move and build a new desktop in Q2.
\n> [listed under Products> VT Book on the website]
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\n> http://www.vtbook.com/
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> And lastly, what you last wrote was the the 2 DVI on one cardTwo DVIs on one card is considered by XP to be one monitor
\n> driving one VP2290b would be considered 1 monitors under XP? I need
\n> to know this since I have 5 monitors already hooked up to one
\n> system. Thanks again for your insights.
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