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I'm running a Radeon 7200 (VIVO) as primary and a Cirrus L
gic 5446 PCI as
secondary.
The Cirrus is new to system so that I could finally rid myself of the bs
involved in instead using an Xpert98 for secondary display. My one peice of
advice is to avoid using two ATI cards to achieve your needs. The drivers
tend to walk all over themselves and in fact I couldn't update any of the
Radeon's software as it seemed unable to detect the card in the system if
the Xpert98 was physically present also.
The Cirrus has turned out to be a much better choice as among other things,
it's not a 3d accelerated card so it doesn't demand an interrupt and games
don't get "confused" by having to choose which to use
The fact it's also
listed in "displays.txt" (that Windows provides as a readme after install)
as one that works "out of the box" and using Windows default drivers is
another big plus.
"Good Man" <heyho@letsgo.com> wrote in message
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> "I discuss" <lleaf-delete.this-@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:GBkkc.25711$k%.606932@news20.bellglobal.com:
>
> > A better setup would be ATI video card such as 9800 pro which support
> > dual monitors, then add a TV tuner card.
>
> yeah, but my computer is a 1.4 Athlon, the MoBo is old, and ideally i'd
> like to add a 2nd monitor, not have to buy a whole new computer system.
> the 9800 is overkill for what i need.