Video Card Suggestion

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I am building a P4 3.0 GHz CPU machine with a Gigabyte 8XKNP motherboard and am
looking for a recommendation for a video board. I want it to be able to handle
dual CRT monitors and be good at it with relatively straighttforward setup etc.
I am a heavy user of Photoshop and the machine will be mainly used for that.
However, I am not adverse to doing some gaming and would like it to perform
reasonably well there also :>) I do not need TV tuning. I have heard good
things about ATI Radion, especially the 9800 series, but it is not to clear to
me which one of their products would fit the bill and from reading the product
specs it is also not clear to me if they support dual CRT or just 1 CRT and 1
flat panel screen.


Howard
 
I am building a P4 3.0 GHz CPU machine with a Gigabyte 8XKNP motherboard and am
looking for a recommendation for a video board. I want it to be able to handle
dual CRT monitors and be good at it with relatively straighttforward setup etc.
I am a heavy user of Photoshop and the machine will be mainly used for that.
However, I am not adverse to doing some gaming and would like it to perform
reasonably well there also :>) I do not need TV tuning. I have heard good
things about ATI Radion, especially the 9800 series, but it is not to clear to
me which one of their products would fit the bill and from reading the product
specs it is also not clear to me if they support dual CRT or just 1 CRT and 1
flat panel screen.
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Typically, the ATI cards with digital/analog connections are dual
monitor, but don't take that as gospel cuz I've been wrong before.
For what it's worth, I've done the graphics/dual monitor setup for
some time now. If I had it to do all over again, I'd just have one
huge CRT display. Even using an identical pair of monitors (as I do),
you still have a color mismatch between them and no matter how much
effort you put into correcting it, they will never be identical. So
next time for me, it's just one Eizo FLexScan T966.



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I wasn't so much worried about color matching. I was going to have one large
main monitor that I work on images with and a small 'who cares about the color'
monitor that I could use to put the Photoshop palletes on.
Howard
 
Typically, the ATI cards with digital/analog connections are dual
monitor, but don't take that as gospel cuz I've been wrong before.
For what it's worth, I've done the graphics/dual monitor setup for
some time now. If I had it to do all over again, I'd just have one
huge CRT display. Even using an identical pair of monitors (as I do),
you still have a color mismatch between them and no matter how much
effort you put into correcting it, they will never be identical. So
next time for me, it's just one Eizo FLexScan T966.
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I agree that it is difficult to get colour match but the size of a pair of
22" IIyamas that I use would IMHO be impossible to match with a single
screen and still have readable text. I use the screen in front of me for
the picture (Mainly Photoshop) and the screen to the right for all the
toolbars, and other stuff like email.

Not great for games but I still find the Matrox cards the best for working
with dual screen (or triple with the P750 or Parhelia).

Andy
 
I am building a P4 3.0 GHz CPU machine with a Gigabyte 8XKNP motherboard and am
looking for a recommendation for a video board. I want it to be able to handle
dual CRT monitors and be good at it with relatively straighttforward setup etc.
I am a heavy user of Photoshop and the machine will be mainly used for that.
However, I am not adverse to doing some gaming and would like it to perform
reasonably well there also :>) I do not need TV tuning. I have heard good
things about ATI Radion, especially the 9800 series, but it is not to clear to
me which one of their products would fit the bill and from reading the product
specs it is also not clear to me if they support dual CRT or just 1 CRT and 1
flat panel screen.


Howard
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Sorry forgot to mention for anything to do with dual screens I have found
this site to be the most useful

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/

Andy
 
I wasn't so much worried about color matching. I was going to have one large
main monitor that I work on images with and a small 'who cares about the color'
monitor that I could use to put the Photoshop palletes on.
Howard
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Like your color picker?



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