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December 29th, 2007
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| Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 33
|  How to connect a 30" Monitor Hi, I recently built a new system and want to attach a 30" monitor to it. I have a Radeon HD2600PRO video card with 512mb. I have an SLI capable motherboard, an Asus P5N-E. It appears that you have to make 2 connections to the 30" monitors and that you can do that with both connections on one card, is that right? I would like to get another identical card and use the SLI to connect 1 connection on each card to the monitor. Would that be a good move? Thanks, Rob  Revolutionary Rob - NYC  ------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Intel Q6600, Asus P5N-E, Radeon HD2600PRO(512mb), 4GB ram, Zalman CNPS9500, Vista Ultimate running 64 bit. Soon to be tri-boot. :) (2) Athlon XP 2500 2gb MCE (C)200gb (D)500gb (F)Raid 3 1000gb (G)Raid 0 1000gb ------------------------------------------------------------ |
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December 29th, 2007
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| Fields  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA
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|  Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor SLI is an Nvidia technology, and you have an ATI card, so you can't run dual cards on that motherboard. You'll need a Crossfire capable (ATI's version of SLI) motherboard to run dual ATI cards. E8400 DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL 4GB G.Skill 800MHz Sapphire Radeon HD3870 512MB Silverstone DA650W WD 250GB + Seagate 320GB |
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December 29th, 2007
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| ako the pinoy  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: by the beach
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| Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor First welcome to HL rob... and YH is right that mobo is only capable of SLI not Crossfire... Abit IP35-E C2D E6750 G0 @ 2.66ghz [TR Ultra120EX] EVAG 8800GTS [TR HR03] Corsair [2gbDual@800] 820GB HDD[120/200/500] Antec TP 550W Silverstone Temjin 09 Saitek Eclipse1 & Razer DeathAdder Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit |
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December 29th, 2007
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| Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 33
| Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor oh, Oops! Right, of course. So... Would I be better off with any 1 particular powerful card, or to choose 2 new cards of medium power? Revolutionary Rob - NYC ------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Intel Q6600, Asus P5N-E, Radeon HD2600PRO(512mb), 4GB ram, Zalman CNPS9500, Vista Ultimate running 64 bit. Soon to be tri-boot. :) (2) Athlon XP 2500 2gb MCE (C)200gb (D)500gb (F)Raid 3 1000gb (G)Raid 0 1000gb ------------------------------------------------------------ |
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December 29th, 2007
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| Teh Brown Staffer  Join Date: May 2006 Location: KS
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| Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor No, all you need is a video card that supports dual-link DVI... and yours does. You won't need anything else. - Core 2 Quad Q6600 - DFI Infinity 975X - 4GB Corsair XMS2 w/ DHX DDR2-800 - 250GB Seagate 7200.10RPM + 160GB Hitachi 5400.4RPM - ATi Radeon X1900XT 256MB - Cooler Master Centurion 5 + OCZ StealthXStream 600W - Acer 19" P191W Monitor - Logitech Z-5500 Digital + Logitech MX Revolution - Vista Ultimate x64 |
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December 29th, 2007
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 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Harrah, OK
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| Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor Hi and welcome to the best sight on the web.  Witch monitor are you trying to connect? And what cables are you using? Bailey  |
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December 29th, 2007
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| HL's Technomancer  | Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor Quote:
Atleast for displaying images, that card is going nowhere for gaming at that resolution.   | |
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December 29th, 2007
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| Join Date: Nov 2006
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| Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor I have no interest in gaming except for scrabulous.com and I just want it to be without noticeable slowness. Revolutionary Rob - NYC ------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Intel Q6600, Asus P5N-E, Radeon HD2600PRO(512mb), 4GB ram, Zalman CNPS9500, Vista Ultimate running 64 bit. Soon to be tri-boot. :) (2) Athlon XP 2500 2gb MCE (C)200gb (D)500gb (F)Raid 3 1000gb (G)Raid 0 1000gb ------------------------------------------------------------ |
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December 30th, 2007
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| Join Date: Nov 2006
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| Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor But my main question is not being answered... for 'good' (not gaming) performance, should I really stick with what I have? Also, I am deliberating between the Gateway 30" monitor and a Dell 30" but apparently there is such a performance difference that I will save up for the Gateway. Revolutionary Rob - NYC ------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Intel Q6600, Asus P5N-E, Radeon HD2600PRO(512mb), 4GB ram, Zalman CNPS9500, Vista Ultimate running 64 bit. Soon to be tri-boot. :) (2) Athlon XP 2500 2gb MCE (C)200gb (D)500gb (F)Raid 3 1000gb (G)Raid 0 1000gb ------------------------------------------------------------ |
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December 30th, 2007
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| Re: How to connect a 30" Monitor Quote:
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