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To: Street Walker who wrote (22)	1/21/1998 11:52:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

>>resolution capabilities of the following cards:<< Color Graphics uses the S3 Trio 64V2 chip (same one I am using right now on my Compaq Presario) The max DRAM on my card and the color graphics is 2MB. The resolution on these cards is 1024x768 with the 65000 colors.( I do not see the refresh rate, you should have at least 75Hz but 85Hz is preferable.) This is pretty decent resolution on a seventeen inch monitor. I want higher resolution for a 21 in and can't upgrade this card to more memory and hence higher resolutions. Most stock charting programs and applications you would run into with on line brokers would probably run with 256 colors with a higher resolution. The Appian J2 gives you higher resolution and they claim their RDRAM is twice as fast as DRAM. The resolution of the J2 is 1200x1024 at 85HZ with 8MB RAM. This is real nice resolution at a good refresh rate. The next step up is 1600x1200 but this would be used for high end graphics applications. You will need two PCI slots to run three or four monitors with this card(s). The resolution table on the J3 won't load on my computer. I can only guess that it has the same resolution capabiliy as the J2 unless they steal some RAM for the 3D capability of the card. Unless you are a gamer, I don't know what you need 3D for. If I were making my decision based on resolution I would opt for the Appian. My amateur opinion Zeuspaul

To: Street Walker who wrote (22)	1/22/1998 3:02:00 PM
From: Proton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Re: PCI v. AGP in re Multimonitor Cards Thanks to all for the thread and interesting discussion about mulitmonitor cards. I'd prefer to see a multimonitor card with AGP support. Here's what I know about AGP: 1. At best, AGP is half-baked. The single-monitor cards don't always support the full feature set (especially important to get sideband addressing, which keeps the data path clear). 2. Yes, I am aware that "AGP doesn't speed up text and 2D apps," but that presupposes one terminal's load on the PCI bus. At a certain point, I should think that a PCI bus burdened with SCSI-3, high-speed ethernet, multimonitor card, and other goodies is going to encounter throughput degredation. 3. There are no AGP multimonitor cards on the market that I know of. I would appreciate being informed if any of you know of one. I know one can grow old and grey waiting for "the next best thing," but AGP appears to be ideal for supporting multimonitor cards. Pý

To: Street Walker who wrote (22)	1/22/1998 7:56:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

Multimonitor cards I was looking for AGP multimonitor cards for P2 (didn't find any). I ran across STB cards, have you checked these out yet? STB stbmvp.com claims they sell more multimonitor cards than anyone. The resolution capability looks similar to the Appian card 1280X1024 16 bit color 80Hz. With the STB card you can start with a two monitor card in one PCI slot and then add a daughterboard for two more monitors without using another PCI slot Regards Zeuspaul