Looking for am AGP graphics card, must have dual DVI outputs and must be
ATi or Matrox.  No nVidia, thanks.

I'm not a gamer so it doesn't need to be a speed demon.  Would like it
to be able to handle full screen video and run Google Earth well.  I'm
not very well up on ATi card naming but it looks like an
X1300/X1600/X1800. somewhere in that ballpark, would do the trick.

It has to be able to run dual 20" LCD monitors and span the desktop
across them.

W.H.Y.?

pls email: mike AT jasper DOT org DOT uk

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Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> Looking for am AGP graphics card, must have dual DVI outputs and must be
> ATi or Matrox.  No nVidia, thanks.
> 
> I'm not a gamer so it doesn't need to be a speed demon.  Would like it
> to be able to handle full screen video and run Google Earth well.  I'm
> not very well up on ATi card naming but it looks like an
> X1300/X1600/X1800. somewhere in that ballpark, would do the trick.
> 
> It has to be able to run dual 20" LCD monitors and span the desktop
> across them.
> 
> W.H.Y.?
> 
> pls email: mike AT jasper DOT org DOT uk
> 


interesting that you dont want an Nvidia card, i am having trouble with 
the FX5500, in setting up a Benq  HD  monitor,  windows  just  keeps on 
  falling over,  is it the drivers do you think and is that  why  you 
dont  want  one?

Cheers  andrew

In article <yjKwm.100091$OO7.7302@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Andrew Fox
 writes

>interesting that you dont want an Nvidia card, i am having trouble with 
>the FX5500, in setting up a Benq  HD  monitor,  windows  just  keeps on 
> falling over,

I've got a 6600GT on a Via K8T800 Pro chipset running eXpee.  If asked
to work hard it locks up the machine randomly.  It's fine in 2D mode,
but even running MSN Messenger with the webcam open and simultaneously
watching BBC iPlayer could be chancy. I couldn't even run any of the
3DMark benchmarks to completion, including the early ones (3DMark2000,
2001, etc).  There's a lot of complaints about this particular
combination of hardware not working well if you search google.  I don't
overclock.

Have spent some time today with the machine and various suggestions from
google.  Have increased the AGP aperture, removed the graphics card
heatsink and re-fitted with Arctic Silver, and nudged up the AGP voltage
from 1.5 to 1.6 in BIOS, and it is now much better.  It'll run 3dMark05
and the earlier ones to completion but not 3DMark06.

Basically, I'm fed up with the flakyness and want a reliable card,
therefore no more nVidia shite.

>  is it the drivers do you think

No, I'm sure it is hardware related in my case.

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