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What specs to look for in a video card to run 22" monitor at high resolutions
Hi,
I'll be buying a 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro http://www.necmitsubishi.com/product....cfm?product_i d=232&division=MITSUBISHI and am now looking a various cards to drive this monstrosity. Mitsubishi specs say it can go to 2048 x 1536 @ 86 and my job now is to match it to a card provide the signal. Although I will probably have the screen set to 2048 x 1536 I figure if the card can do this it will be able to provide viewing at lower resolutions flicker free. My needs are to provide clean displays of various large data sets in 2D, sometimes rotate them in 3D and a little low-tech gaming like Age of Empires, Sim City. I'm a little confused because cards advertised with 64 MB, 128 MB, or now 256 MB of memory all claim to be able to display at resolutions near to my 2048 x 1536 benchmark so there must be more than aggregate memory that determines ability to run large monitors at high resolutions. The Matrox P750 seems to a reliable choice for the job but lacks some of the fun stuff of say the ATI AIW 9000 Pro or GeForce4 Ti 4600. Will $150-$200 get me a reliable, flicker free card that can display at high resolutions (that way I can see more of the data set) or am I asking too much of a card in this price range? One last question. What is the end result of setting the screen to a resolution and refresh rate that the card doesn't list? For example, the monitor mentioned above lists a capability to display 1800 x 1440 @ 92 Hz but the closest a Radeon 9800 Pro comes in terms of its spec sheet is 1920x1080 @ 120. How would this display on the screen? Thanks for the help with these questions. |
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Do you really need 2048x1536? What kind of work do you do?
"Steve Rossiter" wrote in message ... Hi, I'll be buying a 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro http://www.necmitsubishi.com/product....cfm?product_i d=232&division=MITSUBISHI and am now looking a various cards to drive this monstrosity. Mitsubishi specs say it can go to 2048 x 1536 @ 86 and my job now is to match it to a card provide the signal. Although I will probably have the screen set to 2048 x 1536 I figure if the card can do this it will be able to provide viewing at lower resolutions flicker free. My needs are to provide clean displays of various large data sets in 2D, sometimes rotate them in 3D and a little low-tech gaming like Age of Empires, Sim City. I'm a little confused because cards advertised with 64 MB, 128 MB, or now 256 MB of memory all claim to be able to display at resolutions near to my 2048 x 1536 benchmark so there must be more than aggregate memory that determines ability to run large monitors at high resolutions. The Matrox P750 seems to a reliable choice for the job but lacks some of the fun stuff of say the ATI AIW 9000 Pro or GeForce4 Ti 4600. Will $150-$200 get me a reliable, flicker free card that can display at high resolutions (that way I can see more of the data set) or am I asking too much of a card in this price range? One last question. What is the end result of setting the screen to a resolution and refresh rate that the card doesn't list? For example, the monitor mentioned above lists a capability to display 1800 x 1440 @ 92 Hz but the closest a Radeon 9800 Pro comes in terms of its spec sheet is 1920x1080 @ 120. How would this display on the screen? Thanks for the help with these questions. |
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:52:22 -0700, Steve Rossiter
wrote: Hi, I'll be buying a 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro http://www.necmitsubishi.com/product....cfm?product_i d=232&division=MITSUBISHI and am now looking a various cards to drive this monstrosity. Mitsubishi specs say it can go to 2048 x 1536 @ 86 and my job now is to match it to a card provide the signal. Although I will probably have the screen set to 2048 x 1536 I figure if the card can do this it will be able to provide viewing at lower resolutions flicker free. My needs are to provide clean displays of various large data sets in 2D, sometimes rotate them in 3D and a little low-tech gaming like Age of Empires, Sim City. I'm a little confused because cards advertised with 64 MB, 128 MB, or now 256 MB of memory all claim to be able to display at resolutions near to my 2048 x 1536 benchmark so there must be more than aggregate memory that determines ability to run large monitors at high resolutions. The Matrox P750 seems to a reliable choice for the job but lacks some of the fun stuff of say the ATI AIW 9000 Pro or GeForce4 Ti 4600. Will $150-$200 get me a reliable, flicker free card that can display at high resolutions (that way I can see more of the data set) or am I asking too much of a card in this price range? One last question. What is the end result of setting the screen to a resolution and refresh rate that the card doesn't list? For example, the monitor mentioned above lists a capability to display 1800 x 1440 @ 92 Hz but the closest a Radeon 9800 Pro comes in terms of its spec sheet is 1920x1080 @ 120. How would this display on the screen? Thanks for the help with these questions. Buy Matrox - for high resolutions on analog monitors they are still the best. Whether you need the 750 depends on your need for 3D performance - if the tools you use for rotation support newer DirectX versions it will help to get the 750 or the Parhelia, otherwise even the old Millenium450 or 550 will do. P750 and Parhelia are interesting if you want to use more than two monitors. Michael |
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"Peter Cavan" wrote in message ... I would class Sim City 4 as "light" gaming. I would call "heavy" gaming something like Gun Metal, Doom 3 or Half-Life 2.The Matrox cars are supposed to be the best for 2D work, but are sorely lacking for gaming. You might have to get something along the lines of an Ati Radeon 9800 Pro or a NVidia 5900 Ultra, both expensive cards. PC SimCity 4 gets fairly heavy when you max out the graphics, start scrolling and zooming the map |
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In alt.sys.pc-clone.dell HamMan wrote:
SimCity 4 gets fairly heavy when you max out the graphics, start scrolling and zooming the map True, but compared to a 3d first-person-shooter (eg. Doom3) SimCity4 is pretty light. Most modern cards will have *some* 3d capabilities. A mid-range (32-64 MB of video memory) will have plenty of power for SimCity4 as well as driving a 22" desktop. More memory will allow you to run at higher resolutions, but you probably won't be running at more than 1600x1200 anyways. 32MB will allow for 1600x1200x16bit, 64MB will allow for 1600x1200x32bit. Cards with that much memory will also have plenty of power for SimCity4, as well as most games up until about a year or so ago. Newer games will still run, but you won't be able to run at max. resolution/extras. New graphics cards always cause the older models to plummet in price anyways, so unless you're a hard-core gamer you can easily afford to buy one or two "generations" ago. |
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Xalinai wrote:
Buy Matrox - for high resolutions on analog monitors they are still the best. Whether you need the 750 depends on your need for 3D performance - if the tools you use for rotation support newer DirectX versions it will help to get the 750 or the Parhelia, otherwise even the old Millenium450 or 550 will do. P750 and Parhelia are interesting if you want to use more than two monitors. Michael How about the Matrox 400? Which older Matrox models are good for 2D and supports two monitors (19" and 15")? How much memory is needed? |
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I use a Iiyama 22" monitor with a Nvidia Quadro2 Pro card, I decided to
try 2048 x 1536 and it would be too small to read properly. At that resolution it changed to 16bit colour mode from 32bit. The highest resolution you would want to comfortably use on a 22" monitor is probably 1600 x 1200. Stuart Steve Rossiter wrote: Hi, I'll be buying a 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro http://www.necmitsubishi.com/product....cfm?product_i d=232&division=MITSUBISHI and am now looking a various cards to drive this monstrosity. Mitsubishi specs say it can go to 2048 x 1536 @ 86 and my job now is to match it to a card provide the signal. Although I will probably have the screen set to 2048 x 1536 I figure if the card can do this it will be able to provide viewing at lower resolutions flicker free. My needs are to provide clean displays of various large data sets in 2D, sometimes rotate them in 3D and a little low-tech gaming like Age of Empires, Sim City. I'm a little confused because cards advertised with 64 MB, 128 MB, or now 256 MB of memory all claim to be able to display at resolutions near to my 2048 x 1536 benchmark so there must be more than aggregate memory that determines ability to run large monitors at high resolutions. The Matrox P750 seems to a reliable choice for the job but lacks some of the fun stuff of say the ATI AIW 9000 Pro or GeForce4 Ti 4600. Will $150-$200 get me a reliable, flicker free card that can display at high resolutions (that way I can see more of the data set) or am I asking too much of a card in this price range? One last question. What is the end result of setting the screen to a resolution and refresh rate that the card doesn't list? For example, the monitor mentioned above lists a capability to display 1800 x 1440 @ 92 Hz but the closest a Radeon 9800 Pro comes in terms of its spec sheet is 1920x1080 @ 120. How would this display on the screen? Thanks for the help with these questions. |
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