HI ALL I was wondering if anyone here has used all the latest Dual Monitor video cards and would have an opinion on which one of these cards has the most detail . (Im only interested in 2d quality, such as numbers and letters on a spreadsheet) I am really curious as to the picture quality of the new ATI 9000 card? STerling
We have ATI Radeon VE, GeForce 4 MX and various favors of Matrox running in our office. The cards all do the job. All with reasonablely clear 2D output. The only issue we have with the Radeon VE is it cannot set its refresh rate above 60 in dual monitor mode. Radeon VE is an old card. So thing may have improved.
I am using the Vision-Tek GeForce MX440 AGP card and it does a terrific job. It's got 64mb of ram and supports a top of the line Dell Monitor and an NEC MultiSync FE-950+ I bought it off the Dell website and saved 10%, with free shipping. $114.00
Running analog: 2D clarity winner would be ATI. 3D speed would be Nvidia (until the recent arrival of the newest ATI 9xxx). Running digital, pick any one.
GeForce 4 MX series are low cost version of the GeForce 4 cards. The 3D performance is actually slightly weaker than a Radeon 9000 mentioned. You can check the benchmarks yourself: http://www17.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q3/0207181/radeon9000-08.html As for the current top 3D performer consumer cards, Radeon 9700 is on the top.
I've got a slightly older pc I built a few years ago, and unfortunately it doesn't have an AGP slot. Are any of these latest cards available in PCI form ?
you can buy @ ebay for 60-70 or here: http://www.compuvest.com/engine/default1024.asp?60726 i bought mine for 65 two month ago-happy with it