Best vid card for dual monitor

[Byte]

I'm going to setup a 19" @ 16x1200 and a 17" @ 11x864, geforce4 ti vs radeon 9700 which would have the best dual monitor feature?

 

[tenoc]

I think ATI has more experience at it.

My R8500 does it with no problems or fanfare.

 

[Mingon]

Nvdia's driver setup is easier in my experience

 

[xpeter]

definitely ATI RADEON for the best picture quality

 

[Rand]

I think ATI has more experience at it.

Neither have done much in-house work on multi-monitor implementations in any case... I'd wager ATi has done a bit more, but the overwhelming majority of their tech has been directly licensed from Appian


I'd lean towards nVidia as having a margnally better Multi-Monitor implementation on the driver level.... though ATi's still holds the crown from a hardware level implementation. Their VERY close though, I'd say nV has a slightly easier and very very slightly more capable implementation though.
That said, both are still quite a ways behind Matrox or Appian's full breadth of capabilities.

I'd say the difference is close enough that I'd definitely still be more inclined to get the R9700 over the Ti4600 as it's clearly the better chip in virtually every other respect.

 

[Jeomite]

I never experienced dual-monitors with an ATI Card...

But I'm running a GF4 Ti4400 on dual-monitor right now. And I must say the setup was really easy. And I had no problems yet... (been running this setup for almost a year now).

 

[Byte]

i just installed my 9700Pro, on my main system after testing it out on my server. OMG i'm never buying ATI again.

 

[GoodToGo]

y wat happened??

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: Byte
i just installed my 9700Pro, on my main system after testing it out on my server. OMG i'm never buying ATI again.

what happened?

 

[Byte]

it just disappointed the hell out of me, in terms of image quality. Most of my games aren't really that much faster, its mostly a benchmark card. Also my quantum maxtor hard drive died a few days after, i have nothing else to blame but the radeon

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Byte
it just disappointed the hell out of me, in terms of image quality. Most of my games aren't really that much faster, its mostly a benchmark card. Also my quantum maxtor hard drive died a few days after, i have nothing else to blame but the radeon

i hope you arent one of those guys who wanted this thing to make counterstrike look impressive....