17" v 19" - Parhelia triplehead

[Paddy the wak]

Hello,
Could anyone tell me ...
Do 3 x 19" TFT's use more Parhelia card and or system resoures than 3 x 17" tft's ? (same system same resolution)

[Tjalfe]

if the screens are same resolution/colour depth, then there should be no diffence

[Paddy the wak]

Thanks tjalfe ...
That confirms what I was thinking but the tech support guy at Viewsonic (even though the 19" tft's are Viewsonic) was trying to tell me things would be slower.... hmmmmm

[GNEP]

Not for the same resolution. Will drink a bit more soup from the socket in the wall though, but with TFTs this isn't really a problem

[Tjalfe]

Originally posted by Paddy the wak
Thanks tjalfe ...
That confirms what I was thinking but the tech support guy at Viewsonic (even though the 19" tft's are Viewsonic) was trying to tell me things would be slower.... hmmmmm

I was thinking with respect to the parhelia, it would not see a difference.
with respect to the monitors,then the 19" flatpanels are a minimum of 25ms response time ( the ones I have seen anyways) where alot of 17" screens have down to 16ms, which would make them a bit better for fast moving graphics like DVD's. games etc...this would produce slight ghosting/motion blur on the screen.

[Paddy the wak]

I hear what you are saying ... and it was a concern of mine but
both the 17" and the 19" have a response time of 25ms ... and I can't say I have noticed any ghosting or motion blur in any of my games ... they run great ... Surround Gaming is awesome.

I have a problem with a programe called Celestia... it is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions.

I have been running it on my TH system for at least a year with high res textures ... It has been running sweet and it is really GOBSMACKING across the three monitors.

But...
Recently I have done a complete system re-install and upgraded to the 3 x 19" TFT's and this programe now runs very very slowly at the high res textures... even with the medium res textures (default) .... in Task Manager the CPU is at 97-100

I've been trying to work out what has caused the slow down and a guy on the Celestia forum says it is to do with the refresh rate of the monitors.... whilst trying to investigate this I spoke to Viewsonics tech support where I was told the 19" tft's would use up graphics card and system resources more than the 17" tft's ....
Hence my opening question.... but is slow even if I put the 17"tft's back on.
Also the refresh rate has not changed from when it was working brilliantly..... ???
I just can't figure out why it is now running so slowly.

Anyway thanks for your thoughts ...

If you fancy trying it you can get it here ...

http://ennui.shatters.net/celestia/

[FormerEx-SalesSoup]

interested in flat panels? read this:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/archive_story/aug2003/flat_tech.cfm

[GNEP]

Did you think up the title of that article Soupy? "The skinny on Matrox graphics cards for LCD displays" hehe

[FormerEx-SalesSoup]

Originally posted by GNEP
Did you think up the title of that article Soupy? "The skinny on Matrox graphics cards for LCD displays" hehe

you like?

[GNEP]

Well, I like in that it makes me smile Doesn't sound awfully "professional" (read "boring") though... but that's a good think in my book.

[FormerEx-SalesSoup]

Originally posted by GNEP
Well, I like in that it makes me smile Doesn't sound awfully "professional" (read "boring") though... but that's a good think in my book.

yeah, I thought we needed a bit of spice.