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| Woody4eva |
| I know there's probably a million threads about graphics cards, but I'm looking for one which supports dual monitors and I'm looking to spend as little as possible, maybe £50-£100? Any help appreciated. |
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| Thunder5 |
| Ati Radeon 9600Pro cards are pretty good. They've dual monitor support and aren't very expensive.. |
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| Vert |
| quote: | Originally posted by Thunder5
Ati Radeon 9600Pro cards are pretty good. They've dual monitor support and aren't very expensive.. |
Unless he plans on gaming, I have to say that this may be overkill for him. An old radeon 7xxx series with dual head would do just fine if he isn't gaming.
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| SgtFoo |
don;t get the radeon 7500 series whatsoever..... it's crap b/c of some small hardware/driver faults.
I hate myself for buying it. |
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| JTZ |
Matrox is the leader in multi-head desktop environments. Just about every desktop video card supports multi-head displays now, but Matrox has been around for a while and I can recommend a Matrox card to anyone that is using their computers soley for music only...
I use a G550 and I havent had any problems with it.
Warning, 3D applications/games dont run well at all on the older cards, but they are very cheap, less than a $100 USD.
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| Vert |
| quote: | Originally posted by SgtFoo
don;t get the radeon 7500 series whatsoever..... it's crap b/c of some small hardware/driver faults.
I hate myself for buying it. |
I never had one, but I never heard about any problems with it (and if there were wide-spread problems, I would have heard about it). I'm just saying, get something old if the gaming aspect doesn't matter.
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| Thunder5 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vert
Unless he plans on gaming, I have to say that this may be overkill for him. An old radeon 7xxx series with dual head would do just fine if he isn't gaming.
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Agree.. Just suggested the 9600pro cause haven't seen 7xxx series anywhere lately.. :) |
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| JTZ |
| quote: | | Agree.. Just suggested the 9600pro cause haven't seen 7xxx series anywhere lately.. |
I forgot to mention; My computer can be updated, but my girlfriends is upto date with the latest hardware. I just installed an Abit/ATI 9600 video card and it works great with the setup we have downstairs...
Monitor 1 -- Monitor 2 -- TV
I didnt even have to install the driver CD into the computer, i just installed the card and downloaded the catalyst drivers from ati.com and I was off and running. I love it. 3D games look great and smooth action also. This is the one I got...
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=324028
Its only $100 USD, great value... |
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| JTZ |
| quote: | | Agree.. Just suggested the 9600pro cause haven't seen 7xxx series anywhere lately.. |
I forgot to mention; My computer can be updated, but my girlfriends is upto date with the latest hardware. I just installed an Abit/ATI 9600 video card and it works great with the setup we have downstairs...
Monitor 1 -- Monitor 2 -- TV
I didnt even have to install the driver CD into the computer, i just installed the card and downloaded the catalyst drivers from ati.com and I was off and running. I love it. 3D games look great and smooth action also. This is the one I got...
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=324028
Its only $100 USD, great value... |
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| Thunder5 |
| quote: | Originally posted by JTZ
I just installed an Abit/ATI 9600 video card and it works great with the setup we have downstairs...
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Yeah.. I'm pretty satisfied with my 9600 pro also.. but it is overkill if you don't play games. |
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| josh |
Agree with JTZ on Maxtrox. Stable for the two computers monitors.
But anyway, 9200 ATI radeon should be more then enuff as Im using that. I just need a two monitor supported. It doesnt matter me much on the Gaming anyway it beyond the budget.
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| broken silence |
| ive got a question actually about this stuff---ive read that getting a really big card actually does more harm than good for music production. is that true? like it eats cpu while its running...basically kinda like what vert was saying about overkill. |
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