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High end player:
Wednesday, 08/22/2007 -- by Bryan. Subject: High end player:
Looking to configure player. How would this do for dual channel display.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66HZ
Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
HyperX 2GB DDR2 SDRAM Memory
Ge Force 8600GT 256MB
Does this look it would work fine? What would you change if anything and how would you round this out......Anything missing......If this would not work. What will?
Thanks,
Bryan
Thursday, 08/23/2007 -- by John Schilling. Subject: I would not use the nV Gf8-series and ATi HD-X2K-series GPU's for now
From a performance and function viewpoint I would avoid the new nVidia and ATi parts.
For best possible performance multi-display--I would go with an ATi RADEON X1650 or--for the very high end an X195-- card with 512MB. [an X1650/512MB is the "cost effective" option]
I would then get a Matrox DualHead2Go or TrippleHead2Go--either the analog or, if my display devices supported DVI, the digital edition.
I would run the graphics card in single output mode with the DH2Go or the TH2Go to get my two or three outputs.
Thursday, 08/23/2007 -- by Bryan. Subject: Matrox Clarity...
When running dual display do you need the Matrox. I was under the impression that you would just utilize both DVI or VGA outputs straight from the video card...Runnning 2 seperate monitors running indepedent content. Does that config sound stable?......
Will the DH2go support the independent channels The DH2go. sounds like another cost to utilize dual displays. Is it worth it.
Bryan
Thursday, 08/23/2007 -- by John Schilling. Subject: The Matrox box provides some advantages
Issues:
While nVidia products can support Dual output with V_SYNC locked on both displays--because of texture locking times--nV cards are limited to 30fps video.
ATi cards can handle 60 fps video--however when their cards are in "Dual Output Mode" a bug in their device driver causes the secondary output to drop a couple of frames once per second.
With the DH2Go or the TH2Go you get:
The fast frame rate display capability of the ATi card;
The V_SYNC-locked capability of the nV card.
What you lose:
The DH2Go and the TH2Go only support a very small sub-set of the desirable video resolutions--and no mechanism for inserting your own custom resolutions such as with the nVidia products--or ATi's when used with EnTechTaiwan's PowerStrip.
--JSS
Friday, 08/24/2007 -- by Bryan. Subject: Interesting tradeoffs
Essentially if we are limiting are encoding practices to 30fps then the NVidea card is the way to go...Correct...What Nvidea mid range card would you recomend for that scenario?
How much does the ATI card framed drops effect the quality of picture playback....Is it something that can be lived with.
Has any of the new ATI cards or Nvidea been tested for possbile changes to these hangups.
Thanks,
Bryan
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