Dual-Monitor Card Recommendation

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Terry Michal wrote:

> I just added a second monitor to my Dell Dimension 8250 system, a 1905FP
> 19-inch Flat Panel Monitor. I already had an older 19" 1900FP flat panel
> monitor. Now my system is much slower and I think I need a newer graphics
> card. The graphics card installed is a 64MB DRR GEFORCE4 TI 4200, TVOUT,
> VID Crd. I also have 512 MB memory.
>
> Any suggestions as to what graphics card I should buy?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

Do you need dual DVI outputs or DVI & VGA? If you're not much of gamer,
Matrox makes some excellent dual DVI 2D cards. Most modern ATI/Nvidia
cards ought to work fine as well (although its tougher to find many with
dual DVI).

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"Terry Michal" <michaltl@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>I just added a second monitor to my Dell Dimension 8250 system, a 1905FP
> 19-inch Flat Panel Monitor. I already had an older 19" 1900FP flat panel
> monitor. Now my system is much slower and I think I need a newer graphics
> card. The graphics card installed is a 64MB DRR GEFORCE4 TI 4200, TVOUT,
> VID Crd. I also have 512 MB memory.
>
> Any suggestions as to what graphics card I should buy?
> Thanks in advance.

If you'll be satisfied with graphics of moderate power but not
state-of-the-art power, the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 has what some of
us consider an advantage: Passive cooling; that is, a heat sink without a
fan, so it's silent. It will do DirectX 9 and can handle the modern games,
albeit not at the frame rate of the monster cards. I put one in my Dim 4500
and I'm happy.

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