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Duncan, mused, then expounded: |
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> Bob Sanders posted <20060111210610.GC228605@××××××××.com>, excerpted |
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> below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:06:10 -0800: |
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> > And, for some, being able to drive a digital flat panel at more than |
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> > 1280x1024, requires the higher end cards. The VIA Unichrome won't do |
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> > that. Neither would the ATI 9250 (well, before mine overheated and died - |
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> > 30 min of gaming killed it). |
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> Don't know about flat-panel, tho I don't know why it wouldn't work, but I |
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> was running my Radeon 9250 SE dual-output at 2048x3072 -- that's two |
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> 2048x1536 resolution, 21" monitors, stacked on top of each other. |
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It would work in analog mode. But it won't work in digital mode. Gfx |
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cards can fudge some things in analog mode with a fast ramdac and plo, but |
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can't do the same in digital mode. Check the card specs for any Gfx card, |
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you'll see that analog mode can support up to the full internal frame buffer, |
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but the digital output is restricted. |
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And if you've got a flat panel why run it in analog mode? Waste of money, simply |
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get a cheap crt monitor and run analog. Personally, I prefer the crispness |
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of text on a good flatpanel in digial mode, without all the refresh rate hassles |
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and fuzziness of crts. |
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Bob |
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