best dual monitor agp card?

[DecoY]

im looking to do a dual monitor setup w/ a crt and lcd monitor. what's the best dual head (both analog campatib.) on the market?

 

[kreno]

Matrox Parhelia. In fact, it supports 3 monitors at once

 

[Rand]

Matrox Parhelia if your willing to pay the rather considerable price to get the best quality, feature set and versatility.

You can get a G550 at a much cheaper price though, and it'll offer the best 2D visual quality available short of the Parhelia, and pair it with the most versatile multi-monitor feature set available.

The downside being of course that the G550's 3D performance is quite poor.

If you just want a cheap solid board would good 2D and a good multi-monitor implementation, then the ATi Radeon VE is quite attractively priced. Though again, it's 3D erformance leaves much to be desired.

 

[kreno]

lol, yeah, he just said "the best dual head on the market", that why I mentioned the Parhelia... Another good one is if I'm not mistaken, the GF4 Ti4200 cards... And the ATi 8500 AIW...

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: kreno
lol, yeah, he just said "the best dual head on the market", that why I mentioned the Parhelia... Another good one is if I'm not mistaken, the GF4 Ti4200 cards... And the ATi 8500 AIW...

Unfortunately, the 8500 AIW doesn't support dual VGA out. I have one but I wish it did. The regular Radeon 8500s do, however.

 

[kreno]

really? You'd think with all the shiznizat they stuffed into that card that it would have dual out... weirdness... thanks for the info, I guess you learn something new every day... I'll be sure to remember!

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: kreno
really? You'd think with all the shiznizat they stuffed into that card that it would have dual out... weirdness... thanks for the info, I guess you learn something new every day... I'll be sure to remember!

Yep, it's about the only thing the AIW 8500 lacks is multi-monitor output. The AIW is stuck to resorting to the TV for the second output.

It's the same case with the R7500, the regular R7500 has multi-monitor support, but the AIW iteration lacks it.

 

[hans007]

there is a dual dvi ti4600 out there. since you just want dual monitors, i'd say its still better than the parhelia