S40 Driver Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I am looking to purchase a new video card to drive twin 19" widescreens with a spanned desktop [not mirrored displays]. This card needs to be PCI-e. I plan on running vista as well, so something with 512MB of memory would be nice as well. I bought an ATI x1550 that is on its way back to newegg.com. Any help would be appreciated. I'd prefer nVidia also... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleIIGuy Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Well my XFX Nvidia Geforce 7600GT 256 MB ram works fine with my 19'' Viewsonic and my 17'' Dell LCD monitors. I dont believe Natit or the Nvidia OS X drivers supports ram larger than 256 mb yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/#findComment-335812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 i can run dual DVI w/ a 19" Viewsonic and a 19" Samsung LCDs on a Gigabyte 7600GT/Silentpipe. I could also do it it on my old MSI 7600GS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/#findComment-335849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
success2be Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Natit supports 512MB on ATI Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/#findComment-335852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
S40 Driver Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 Thank you for your responses. I am sending the ATI card back to Newegg as stated. They said they'd wave the restocking fee if I buy the replacement card from them. Is the 7600GT going to be a lot better than the 7600GS. I am looking to spend $100, even if that number is after rebates. There seem to be a lot of 7600 cards to choose from. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....e=Video%20Cards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/#findComment-335861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
success2be Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 The 7600GT is supposed to be faster than the GS clock speed. So buying a GS is like buying a crippled version of Vista Home Premium compared to the full featured Vista Ultimate. I bought my eVGA 7600GT locally at Circuit City. Everything works; resolution changing, Quartz Extreme, Core Image, after the Natit Universal install. Its much easier than trying to enable those things through Callisto, Katana, or ATIScript Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/#findComment-335866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 The 7600GT is supposed to be faster than the GS clock speed. So buying a GS is like buying a crippled version of Vista Home Premium compared to the full featured Vista Ultimate. I bought my eVGA 7600GT locally at Circuit City. Everything works; resolution changing, Quartz Extreme, Core Image, after the Natit Universal install. Its much easier than trying to enable those things through Callisto, Katana, or ATIScript + Natit v.02 supports Rotation on my 7600GT. Get the GS if you're not much into gaming/3d apps and use the money saved over to buy something else There's not much difference performance-wise between the GS/GT, but if gaming is more important the GT has just a bit more oomph when pushing the newer games' fps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/#findComment-335961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 There's not much difference performance-wise between the GS/GT, but if gaming is more important the GT has just a bit more oomph when pushing the newer games' fps. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=335380 GS~10000 GT~16000 that's a HUGE difference, aperture really flies since I switched to a GT. Having said that, the GS is a capable card -where I live the difference in price is ~US$ 20, so I'd definitely pick a GT. Thank you for your responses. I am sending the ATI card back to Newegg as stated. They said they'd wave the restocking fee if I buy the replacement card from them. Is the 7600GT going to be a lot better than the 7600GS. I am looking to spend $100, even if that number is after rebates. There seem to be a lot of 7600 cards to choose from. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....e=Video%20Cards They are much the same AFAIK, get a dual DVI version, they seem to be kinder to osx86. From that list I'd go for the second one down, the dual dvi EVGA - if you don't mind a fan on your card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/#findComment-335991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
S40 Driver Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 I bought a XFX 7600GT. I will update when it arrives. Thank you all for the assistance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46894-dual-dvi-monitor-capability/#findComment-336683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts