Video cards

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:37 AM, David A. Bandel
<david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:38 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > Folks,
>  >  >
>  >  >  I recently got a new monitor -- decided on a widescreen.  But the
>  >  >  motherboards video chip just won't support this properly (I have
>  >  >  video, but it's a bit distorted).
>  >  >
>  >  >  Anyway, I went to the local computer shop to look for video cards
>  >  >  (nVidia to be exact).  They have a 7xxx model and an 8xxx model --
>  >  >  both PCI-X (with a significant price difference between the two).
>  >
>  >  Hopefully you mean PCI-E (PCI-Express) and not PCI-X which is just a
>  >  64bit PCI bus.
>
>  PCI-Express.  Anyway, do the 7xxx or 8xxx models support 1440x900?

Depends on the pixelclock that your DFP requires.  If you're not sure,
then you need to choose a model with dual link TMDS support.

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