Best 2d pci Video card for text

[TheProphe]

hi, im going to be running dual monitors at 1800x1440 on two 22" mitsubishi 2040u monitors, problem, on the g400 i have it can easily do it a good refresh rate, the problem is finding a pci card that can do the same, the g200 can only refresh at 65hz at that resolution, any suggestions for other pci cards? TIA

TheProphe

[alessandro]

It won't be a Matrox one(i don't think they produse PCI cards any more).Try one with a NVidia chip(like the old Diamond one the V550).The 3dfx are ALL excluded because in the resolution you suggest they should look SO much blurry they will be unwise to use one(They have the worst DAC in the market ).

By the way, if you have a G400 on the first place ,why you need a new card for???????

[SteveC]

There is a variant of the G200 millennium with a higher ramdac than normal (G200SE ?). Don't know if there's a PCI version though. What about the old Millenniums? (Pre G-series)

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[This message has been edited by SteveC (edited 18 January 2000).]

[TheProphe]

The G400 is fine, but im runnin g2 monitors and with the dual head it can only do 1280x1024 on the 2nd monitor, so i need a pci card for monitor 2, i just looked at my old mill2 , it can do 1920x1200 at 76hz, close but still looking for 1800x1440 at 75hz

[jtracy]

I don't know how on earth you're gonna get two monitors up on separate video cards, but it is apparently possible. I should let you know that Matrox is supposedly making a dualhead addon board for the G400, but I wouldn't expect it to happen anytime soon, if ever.

The Matrox Millenium 2 is probably the fastest 2D card you can get in PCI. There's both an AGP and a PCI version, and I think they switched completely to AGP when they moved on to the G series. I had a M2 before upgrading to a G400 (G400 is WAAAAY faster), and it served me well, though the 3D support is totally useless.

[TheProphe]

I've been running 4 monitors off of 1 agp200 and 3 millinium 2's , but now i need a higher roslution, so thats why i was asking, even the multimonitor cards don't go to 1800x1440 at 75hz, oh well.

[IceStorm]

The information I'm looking at right now says that the Millennium II will do 70hz at 1800x1440 resolution.

This is what the pdf file that is the manual for the MII states:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/tech_supp/...df/insteng.pdf


I don't know how much RAM is needed, but PCI Millennium II's are readily available at www.intervest-pac.com, including the 12MB version.

Just my $0.02

[Ashley]

A 16MB Voodoo3 PCI will do 2048x1536 at 85Hz, and a 32MB Savage4 PCI will do 1920x1440 at 85Hz - both can be found for under US$100.