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

To: TraderAlan who wrote (1952)	8/14/1998 7:57:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Sounds like you ordered a Dell. What didn't you have them install the second card for you?

To: TraderAlan who wrote (1952)	8/14/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

Good questions (in typing this, I don't know why my answers were italasized) Alan, welcome to the thread. Thanks for visiting the auxilliary site and reading up before asking your questions. Here are my thoughts: (I'm no techie either, so if I'm wrong guys, please correct me) >>>>Does the move to secondary affect the rest of the graphics the PC is going to push (not talking about market day, Real Tick graphics). Am I "losing" anything?</I) <<<<<< The primary will be the PCI, the secondary, AGP. Running Win NT, the resolutions will have to be set the same. Running Win '98, I can't remember if each card can have its separate configuration or not. I don't know much about the differences between PCI/AGP. So if the AGP becomes secondary, I don't know if it really slows anything down. When I look at graphics cards, I look at ramdac and sgram and refresh rate capabilities. If you got a really fast 3d AGP graphics card, I don't think it would be affected if you added some pci cards. NON techie opinion. >>>I can't bear even a single IRQ conflict without breaking out in a sweat. Is one multi-card the best solution fo the limited techi?<<< I don't think adding extra graphics cards provides conflicts whatsoever. >>>Can one monitor display be "turned off" without special software like Appian uses for their multi?<<< Yes, if you just want to run one monitor, you simply hit the off button of the one you're not using <g> >>>Are there any 3rd party software apps to control 2 card/2 monitor displays to make them "normal" (i.e. 1 nice fast graphic monitor) for Saturday/Sunday surfing?<<< What do you mean by "normal"? Once again, I think this goes back to your first question. You have a really fast AGP for 3d games and graphics. And then some additional PCI cards for extra screen real estate. I don't think the extra PCI cards will have any influence on the AGP card. What runs each card/monitor is the hardware, and that's what matters. If you buy the right cards, they will all be fast. So we can better answer your questions, what operating system comes on this Gateway? Also what ATI graphics card is coming pre installed? On Win NT, all the cards have to be the same brand. Matrox uses their own drivers, not Miscrosoft 98 drivers - so I don't know if you will have a problem mixing the ATI and a Matrox card in Win 98. It is probably best finding cards that are both Win 98 driver compatible, of which Matrox is not one of them. You may just try out an very cheap S3 PCI card that Dirk used with success. Hope this helps, S.W.