Xandrios Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Hiya After looking through the compatible graphic cards list i'm a bit confused. This is the thing: I'm looking for a decent videocard that is AGP, has dualscreen and can run 1280*1024. Seems pretty easy, but, as it turns out some cards (that seem to be the same) don't seem to produce the same results. For example: # Radeon 9600XT - no QE no CoreImage Vesa 2.0, 1280, 60Hz # Radeon 9600XT Asus AGP (PCI ID 5964) Vesa 2.0@1024x768x32 This makes it extremely hard to go buy a videocard that works for me. It would be a pity go spend €50 on a card that doesnt work right after all. So, my question is simple: Is there a card that is guranteed to be able to handle 1280*1024 in dualscreen-mode? I will only use it for 2D office work, so it doesnt have to be the latest of the latest. Price is important though, being lower = better The rest of my x86 OSX setup is working pretty well already. At the moment it runs on a Matrox G450 dualhead, but that one only runs at 1024x768...and doesnt actually support dualscreen. Any help is greatly appriciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8795-best-videocard-for-2d-high-resolution-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiberia Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 my Radeon 9200se has an id of 5964. now i'm confused too! lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8795-best-videocard-for-2d-high-resolution-work/#findComment-54694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xandrios Posted February 9, 2006 Author Share Posted February 9, 2006 I kinda meant the difference in resolution. The unknown-brand goes up to 1280*1024, while the Asus one stops at 1024*768 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8795-best-videocard-for-2d-high-resolution-work/#findComment-54697 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xandrios Posted February 13, 2006 Author Share Posted February 13, 2006 Nobody that got dualscreen at 1280*1024 working? Or maybe by using a AGP + PCI card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8795-best-videocard-for-2d-high-resolution-work/#findComment-55852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggman Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 To the best of my knowledge, dual-screen in Mac doesn't work at all. It reports having two displays in the System Profiler, but the Displays preference pane doesn't. Course, nobody has actually tried to do much about it, or if they have, I missed it... Also, to get above 1024x768 resolution, you need a card supporting VESA 3.0. Someone correct me if I'm horribly wrong... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8795-best-videocard-for-2d-high-resolution-work/#findComment-55855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xandrios Posted February 13, 2006 Author Share Posted February 13, 2006 Thanks for your reply It would be a real pitty if dualscreen won't work, since i'd be kind of stuck with windows then. I need dualscreen for my projects I noticed that there are ATI 7000 dualscreen mac-edition videocards available. Does the 'mac edition' have any advantage on the x86 platform? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8795-best-videocard-for-2d-high-resolution-work/#findComment-56097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 No, dual screen doesn't currently work. I have two supported cards (onboard is supported, as is the PCI (by itself), but when I put both in, I can't use them at the same time. Not sure about say a x800 pci-e (reportedly works normally) with say 2xDVI slots for dual. The one dual that seems to work is a 915G+ADD2-N card. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8795-best-videocard-for-2d-high-resolution-work/#findComment-56104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dripple Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 At first: Hi to all! As you can see, this is my very first post to this forum. I have read here for a week or so while waiting for something to arrive ( ) and now I'm trying to prepare everything to start installing Mac OS X 10.4.3 tonight. @Xandrios: I was worried about the support of my graphic card because almost every post was regarding ATI cards. So you have written that your Matrox G450 works, but "only" in 1024x768? For me, this would be okay, because I use two Acer FP555 which support 1024x768 only and a single screen display seems to be allright to see things fly. So whats about graphic performance? Is it a comparable to windows-speed? I know, the G450 is not the fastest card, but it's really reliable and at the moment I don't want to buy a new card. Btw: Is there a running Java (at least 1.4.x) out there? Kind regards from Berlin, Germany Dripple @Cyrana: Not quite shure, but if you plug in a PCI- or AGB-card the onboard card is disabled. For my system, this is true. I can't use both cards together, neither from Windows or Linux. Dripple @Cyrana: Not quite shure, but if you plug in a PCI- or AGB-card the onboard card is disabled. For my system, this is true. I can't use both cards together, neither from Windows or Linux. Dripple Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8795-best-videocard-for-2d-high-resolution-work/#findComment-78648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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