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To: James1000 who wrote (1863)	8/3/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

Graphic Card basics Hi james, welcome to the thread. To start off with, here is a bookmark that has all the various discussions on this thread categorized: home.att.net Click on Hardware and then video/graphics cards for all the discussions we have had. Ram: low grade is EDO, then SDRAM, and for the most part current cards are coming with high end SGRAM. Another important factor with graphics cards is their Ramdac - which powers the refresh rate. Higher the better. Matrox cards range from 220 to 250! Other cards are much lower. Also check out the resolutions/colors/refresh rate of each card. Matrox cards are awesome in all respects. So far, the conclusion among this thread, backed by technical reviews of various cards, Matrox Graphics cards are favored. matrox.com Currently the very best card is the Matrox G200 Millenium/Mystique. It costs around $130 at pricewatch.com There are several ways of creating multimonitor usage. Those can be found at the auxilliary site as well. Myself, I am waiting to hear back from Matrox regarding their Productiva G100 multimonitor card that runs either 2 or 4 monitors. Matrox, as brought about in the discussion here, also has better drivers and technical support. Hope this gives you a good start. S.W.