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

To: Len who wrote (2204)	8/30/1998 7:39:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

I have Windows 98 working with Three monitors!......(finaly) Its a done deal. No more wavering. I visited my local Computer City and purchased three ATI Xpert 98 pci cards for $79 each. (CompUSA charges $100 and Computer City converts to CompuUSA this Tuesday) - So I ended up saving $60. I thought of the pricewatch approach and it figured that I would be paying the same with the shipping involved. There is also a $10 rebate if you send proof that you have purchased Win 98 os. This was the first hardware upgrade I have ever made. It was fun. I just unpluged my monitor from the onboard graphics card ( I thought I would have to disable it first, but didn't have to) and started inserting the three cards in my PCI slots. I plugged the monitors into them and turned the computer on. THE only problem I encountered was it asked to search D//win98 for the drivers. It didn't work until I switech the D to C where my CD drive resides. After that, I just followed the earlier instructions that Dirk posted last Spring #reply-4660057 and presto, I had three monitors running. Pretty Cool. My Primary card ended up being the one farthest away from my ISA slots. I set my monitors up so that the primary monitor is in the middle between monitors 2 and 3. No difficulty encounted. Plug and Play multimonitors! For the past, I have been using 256 colors. Now with the ATI Xpert98, I boosted it up to thousands of colors. I didn't know a picture could look so good on a monitor! That's what the 8 SDRAM does for you. I'm glad I chose this card over the Xxpert@work. Here are some benchmarks from the box of my cards: 3d performance ZD winbench 98 ATI Xpert 98...................................................591 Matrox Productiva G100..............246 Diamond Stealth 3D 4000....157 2d performance ZD winbench 98 ATI Xpert 98..........................................165 Matrox Productiva G100................161 Diamond Stealth 3D 4000.....149 The multimonitor card Matrox will be offering is based on the G100. The resolution and refresh rates will have to be the same on all monitors with this card. With Win 98, I have separate resolutions for all the different sized monitors I'm running. So far I am very happy with Win 98 and Xpert 98 cards. It was a very fast, no brainer installation, and very cost effective, at the same time gaining in performance. There are cheaper cards (S3) that will work in Win 98. I decided I didn't want 2 edo ram and a very low ramdac/low refresh. I have researched this a lot and chose ATI Xpert 98. 8 SDRAM/230 Ramdac and exceptional refresh rates at 1600 x 1200 with millions of colors. I am glad I did not use the matrox mystique cards. I have 15 days to take the xpert's back. Will consider the multimonitor Matrox Card if its priced right, but I will be sacrificing performance, which I may not want to. Regards, S.W.

To: Len who wrote (2204)	8/30/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: Dave Bissett	Respond to of 14778

Thanks Len. I appreciate your thoughts and would really prefer to buy locally for all the reasons you site but the choice in monitors in particular seems to be more limited than other products, which is the only reason I'm studying ratings and mail order...still studying. Dave