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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeddie88 who wrote (10206)	2/3/2000 12:30:00 AM
From: jw	Respond to of 14778

I'm looking at the Matrox G400 Dual Head 32Mb AGP card but am wondering where I would get 2 additional Matrox PCI video cards Sue, the G400 should be a nice card for 2 monitors. A dual PCI would be spendy. I'm sure there are some out there. Two single PCIs should work. They do not have to be same Mfg. I have an 8MB ATI AGP in Server and 4MB Diamond in PCI. They work beautiful together. The PCI was on special for $24.95, with a $30 coupon one weekend on Buy.com when free shipping was available. :) A quick way would be go to pricewatch.com and search Matrox, Diamond, ATI and some of the others. I don't know all of them. ( I think Diamond's web page is, diamondmm.com). Think it was spots that had problems with diamond cards. Regarding NICs. Generally we speak of NICs to create a network between our computers in home or office. Very confusing to call a Modem Card, either Cable or Dial Up, a NIC card. It's not a network card, rather a Internet card. If you are connected to Internet then you need 1 NIC to connect to the other computer, plus a NIC in second computer. Direct to 1 other computer use a crossover cable, more than 2 computers use a Hub with Cat 5 cables. (telephone w/RJ45 connectors). I hope i'm not too confusing <g> Regards, /jw