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I just bought a 20" Apple Cinema Display (the newer aluminum model) to use with my PC. Like many widescreen LCD panels now on the market, it's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 and has an standard DVI link, so this is hardly an Apple/PC incompatibility issue ... but where are the cards that support it ???
My own Sapphire video card supports 1600 x 1024 and many other resolutions beyond that, in widescreen formats, but not 1680 x 1050, so I went looking for a card that did. I called BFG Technologies. The tech rep with whom I spoke looked up all the info he could and told me that all the cards in their lineup only support resolutions up to 1600 x 1024 for the DVI link. He said that if I wanted to use the analog D-Sub VGA connector I would have more flexibility and should be able to match the native res of the display. Even if I wanted to go that route, just one problem, no one makes a VGA-to-DVI adapter, only the opposite exists, a DVI-to-VGA dongle. Suspecting that I would get the same answer at every manufacturer, I called Apple's support. I was directed here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301066
I looked at the PNY Technologies lineup and same as BFG and Sappire, maximum resolution for DVI is 1600 x 1200. what the hell is going on??? What cards are powering all these 1680 x 1050 20" widescreen displays? I am exhausted and perplexed by this discrepancy. Does anyone out there have a display like this that is able to run it at *native* resolution? If so, please let me in on this industry secret! I'll be most appreciative!
I just bought a 20" Apple Cinema Display (the newer aluminum model) to use with my PC. Like many widescreen LCD panels now on the market, it's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 and has an standard DVI link, so this is hardly an Apple/PC incompatibility issue ... but where are the cards that support it ???
My own Sapphire video card supports 1600 x 1024 and many other resolutions beyond that, in widescreen formats, but not 1680 x 1050, so I went looking for a card that did. I called BFG Technologies. The tech rep with whom I spoke looked up all the info he could and told me that all the cards in their lineup only support resolutions up to 1600 x 1024 for the DVI link. He said that if I wanted to use the analog D-Sub VGA connector I would have more flexibility and should be able to match the native res of the display. Even if I wanted to go that route, just one problem, no one makes a VGA-to-DVI adapter, only the opposite exists, a DVI-to-VGA dongle. Suspecting that I would get the same answer at every manufacturer, I called Apple's support. I was directed here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301066
I looked at the PNY Technologies lineup and same as BFG and Sappire, maximum resolution for DVI is 1600 x 1200. what the hell is going on??? What cards are powering all these 1680 x 1050 20" widescreen displays? I am exhausted and perplexed by this discrepancy. Does anyone out there have a display like this that is able to run it at *native* resolution? If so, please let me in on this industry secret! I'll be most appreciative!