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I have just come into a second monitor and need a new video card so I can watch bicycles on both of them at the same time. Anyone have a spare one to part with for cheap?
dennyt
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:33 pm
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You need PCI, or AGP? How nice are you looking for? I have some really ancient pci cards that won't do much for 3D apps / games, but they'll git'r-dun for normal stuff.
Torch
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:54 am
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get a mac.
(every mac built since around 1996 has had dual-monitor support built right in.)
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Aaron
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:07 am
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DOUBLE BIG MAC
keyholefish
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:54 am
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If I wasn't broke, I might buy a mini. And a nano. With some giga.
Aaron, I'm not sure. Probably anything would be an improvement from my current setup. I never play games, but I do run medium to high resolution with lots of fatty jpegs all over it in photoshop. Are you talking 2-3 years ancient, or pre-millenial?
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derrickito
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:17 am
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you need to find out if the slot you have open for another video card is pci or agp
you gotta open up the box and probably take a picture of the mother board for someone to tell you what you need.
keyholefish
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:40 am
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I have one agp and two pci slots open. yes, I have crappy integrated video right now.
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lantius
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:47 am
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keyholefish wrote:
I have one agp and two pci slots open.
so you either have a pci video card right now, or perhaps an integrated video card that uses the pci or possibly shares the agp bus with the socket?
dennyt
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:41 am
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You did not just call me Henry...
lantius
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:32 pm
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Torch wrote:
get a mac.
(every mac built since around 1996 has had dual-monitor support built right in.)
nerdfilter: the colored imacs only had mirroring, afaik.
in fact, so does my ibook, but thanks to screen spanning doctor, hax0r3d that boxx0r.
henry
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:38 pm
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lantius wrote:
Torch wrote:
get a mac.
(every mac built since around 1996 has had dual-monitor support built right in.)
nerdfilter: the colored imacs only had mirroring, afaik.
in fact, so does my ibook, but thanks to screen spanning doctor, hax0r3d that boxx0r.
bigger nerdfilter: mirroring still equals dual-monitor support. maybe not desktop spanning, but still two monitors. and yes, the screen spanning doctor is the best piece of software evar.
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dennyt
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:15 pm
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I had dual monitors on the first PC I built up in '99 (late to the tech game, I know)... you can use either a dual monitor video card, or two video cards, and windows will handle it no problemo. I don't see what the big deal is about those dumb computers with one-button mouses.
Torch
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:09 pm
TerranceJoined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 1637Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
and i don't see what the big deal is about those dumb computer with a bazillion viruses and command protection faults and DOS prompts and driver corruption and blue screens of death and loud fans and...
(apple mice also no longer have one button)
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futurenorth
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:54 pm
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I love when I get those emails from my mom telling me about the new virus going around and how a friend of her friend's son got it and it destroyed his computer and now he regrets ever opening that email because that's the way they get in there you know what I'm talking about? And then I think to myself, self: Aren't you glad your computer is nice and virus free? And I answer to myself, self: don't you wish you didn't have a cold right now? I think the computer virus transformed or mutated into a human virus because I've got the sniffles and one mean sore throat.
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lantius
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:06 pm
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dennyt
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:15 pm
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Yeah, we're hittin' all the good topics lately - pc/mac, global warming, coke & aids.
COKE & AIDS!
keyholefish
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:45 pm
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coke & aids
Someday I'll get a mac. And use a real mouse with it, because thier OS assumes two buttons and their two button moose sucks. I mean really, you have to lift finger #1 to click with finger #2.
joby
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:37 pm
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Multi-mon tips:
A system can only support one AGP device. if your motherboard has built-in video and an AGP slot, then the built-in video is ALSO AGP, and will be disabled by installing an AGP adaptor. So unless you currently only have a PCI adaptor, or you've installing a dual-output AGP adaptor, AGP won't get you support for a second monitor.
About PCI:
A system can support any number of PCI adaptors. However A PCI bus only supports 4 devices, and one of them in the processor. If you've got more than three total PCI slots in your system, then you've got two (or more) PCI busses connected by PCI-PCI bridges.
Each PCI-PCI bridge increases the latency between devices and the processor. PCI video cards REALLY like to be on primary PCI bus. You can figure out which bus your card is on by looking in device manager and selecting "View by connection".
I recommend Matrox Millenium II PCI cards. They're dirt cheap used (like $5 - $10) and they do multi-mon really well.
joby
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:41 pm
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Torch wrote:
and i don't see what the big deal is about those dumb computer with a bazillion viruses and command protection faults and DOS prompts and driver corruption and blue screens of death and loud fans and...
(apple mice also no longer have one button)
System 7 was crap, and system 8 was more of the same crap tied up with a pretty bow.
But i gotta say, OS/X is a really good OS...
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