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Non-Tech : MB TRADING -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Larry Shelor who wrote (5091)	7/18/1999 8:21:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7382

I don't want to sound like a monitor salesman and I know everyone has to act according to their own instincts, but you will CONSERVE bandwidth by having extra charts constantly open and devoted to a few selected indexes. It's changing symbols in a chart or T&S or MM window that strains your bandwidth. When a chart is open and up-to-date, it is only requesting info every time the clock ticks. And the info is just one price. When you switch to a new symbol in a chart you are requesting all the data in that chart and that's a big draw for 56K. Plus, it takes time to drag and drop, maximize and size again, time when the shares you wanted may disappear. My second monitor was all I had anticipated and more. Everyone who hooks up #2 is real happy. Hell, even the staff at MB use dual monitors! (Not to imply that they are an inferior species <g>). w

To: Larry Shelor who wrote (5091)	7/19/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7382

I just talked to Diamond tech support and the guy said that the Viper 550 is your best shot for multiple monitor support using multiple cards under NT, among Diamond products. He says that two PCI 550's are known to work. He's heard stories that a 550 AGP and a 550 PCI will work together but it is less certain (maybe depends on the mobo?). Just thought I'd add that in. Win2000 may be not too far off, so it may not matter that much. FWIW w