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> Finally received my spare DG5 converter box today. Not havingThat's odd - the card *was* configured in "horizontal span"
\n> a Quadro FX 4000 or 4400, I borrowed my friend's Mac G5 with
\n> 6800DDL for some quick experimentation. I previously had tried
\n> the Mac with only 1 converter box and it didn't like the
\n> 2624x2400+1216x2400 mode. The best I was able to do was
\n> 3840x2400@24Hz using 1 dual-link DVI. Today, setting my DG5
\n> to the undocumented EDID mode 5, I was able to get the
\n> Mac to run it as two 1920x2400 screens at 48Hz!
\n> MPEG2-compressed HDTV clips played fine even when straddling
\n> the two heads. I didn't notice any repainting issue beyong
\n> 2560. Unfortunately, the two heads were not perfectly
\n> genlocked--I was able to see the seam when there's motion.
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> On my Windows PC, the dual+single-link mode is not seamlessThat's even more odd - again, are you using horizontal span,
\n> using a Quadro FX 3000 either.
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> By the way, I don't need to remove the spare box when:-) I wish. (I've just turned down a 4400 second chance
\n> running dual+single-link mode.
\n>
\n> I'd really like to try a FX 4000 next. Anyone upgrading to
\n> PCI-E and getting rid of one?
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