DUAL/SINGLE display video boards

rafafredd · Post by **rafafredd** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 9:16 am

I would like to know what kind of video boards are you using succesfully with creamware. Please, don´t forget to write if this is a dual screen/multi monitor capable board.

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 10:27 am

I'm using Matrox G550 Dualhead connected to two 19 inch sony monitors.

It works great and never had any troubles with it

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 11:51 am

MeToo, except I use two Samsung 19".

Kim.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Jul 12, 2002 12:47 pm

Got 2 pc's with Matrox G450 Dualhead. Both have dual monitors.

Never had any problems with it, except for the initial time I had them. I liked to change display resolution, swap primary and secundary monitors etc etc and some programs would not be displayed properly. Now I rarely change the settings, and all works fine.

I'd not buy a G450 now, there's some more advanced models now. But I'd stick to Matrox.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Sat Jul 13, 2002 7:13 pm

Went back to a matrox dual G450 16MB after using a whizz bang nvidia dual card (you don't need huge amounts of video ram). I like the image quality of the matrox better (it's the filter configuration they use not the voltage levels). Also I like how they have two vga output connectors, and you don't have to use adapters. Cheers!

RedSun · Post by **RedSun** » Sat Jul 13, 2002 11:18 pm

I use a Matrox G550 with a Viewsonic PS790(19") and an old Samtron 14".

RedSun .:.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 8:32 am

Matrox G450 has 32MB RAM, not? Both of mine do.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 8:38 am

They come in many wariants.

Immanuel

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 11:35 am

If you have the money, i would buy the Matrox Parhelia... Next generation of Matrox Dualhead (triplehead in this case).

I've got a G450, before i had a MarvelG400(with tv in/out, hardware video compressor to record fullscreen video in realtime), before i had a MarvelG200. My next card will be a Matrox also. They have the best driver, stability and also the best image quality, specialy if you use DvD movies on your PC.

2D of Matrox is still the one to beat, but they're very poor in 3D. This is not a gamer card.

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Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Jul 14, 2002 11:47 am

My bet is, that for the same money, you can buy a g550 now and a Parfelia in 3months - gives you a spare card for trouble shooting.

Immanuel

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:57 am

DJATWORK · Post by **DJATWORK** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 2:03 pm

I own an AGP Ati Radeon VE, 32 MB and DualHead. THe ATI SUpport told me that Bus MAstering can´t be disabled for ATI Video Cards. I think that it´s not true, but that´s what they say, so think it twice before buying an ATI Video Card. Now I´d like to get a Matrox...

DJATWORK

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 5:21 pm

just bought my matrox G550 millenium last saterday ( finaly) this works great, I should have done this long time ago!!

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 8:22 pm

I bought a Matrox 550 last week but haven't installed it as I'm just about to move cities...

btw: what happens when you hit "print screen" ?

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:19 pm

I'm using a Matrox G450 32MB since it came out years ago.

Spirit, 'PrintScreen' copies the display contents to a buffer which can be pasted into a graphics program.

RedSun · Post by **RedSun** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 3:09 pm

Spirit:

To Windows, you have only one desktop. IE: if you have two screens at 1024x768, windows sees this as a single desktop of 2048x768. It's your video driver that manages your screens.

The result is that, if you hit "print screen", you'll get a snapshot of your whole desktop(2048x768).

If you only want a snapshot of the active window, press ALT-Print Screen.

RedSun .:.

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 2:41 am

On 2002-09-02 16:09, RedSun wrote:
Spirit:

To Windows, you have only one desktop. IE: if you have two screens at 1024x768, windows sees this as a single desktop of 2048x768. It's your video driver that manages your screens.

Does this imply you need both screens running at the same resolution? I ask this because I plan to migrate from single to dual monitor setup. The main monitor is a viewsonic 19" which runs at 1600x1200, the secondary monitor (which is not connected now) is a compaq 17" which can only run at 1024x768. Is the effect dependent on the video board I choose?
Hope you can give me some clues. TIA
Rob

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 3:18 am

No, your monitors can have whatever resolutions. I don't know if it's a case of video card / driver but at least Matrox G450 allows different resolutions for both monitors.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 3:47 am

Thanks Redsun.

I've now installed my Matrox 550 and everything works beautifully with no tweaking needed. It's hooked to a Samsung 955DF 19-inch and a LG 995E 19-inch.

Round1 · Post by **Round1** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:52 am

I'm running 3 x monitors, two on a Matrox G400max 32mb AGP and the 3rd on a 16mb TNT2 PCI. This works surprisingly well on an ASUS CUSL2-c mobo with a 1gig P3. I tend to run the Scope stuff on the 3rd monitor while Logic is across monitors 1 & 2. All 3 screens are 17 inch CRT's running at 1152*864.
The Parhelia looks very nice, but I'll wait for the price to drop before looking to get one......ditto with 17 inch LCD's..