Clearest 2d card

[jurzdevil]

im looking for a card that has dual display on it for 2 21 inch monitors. im not that big of a gamer so 2d is more important. my brothers geforce 3 ti200 isnt that clear on a big display so i would like to avoid nvidia. it will go in an intel board with a p2 450 on it. not the best performer but its all i need. agp 1x i believe.

thanks
sean

 

[Rand]

Matrox G400/450/550.
The best 2D visual quality available in a consumer graphics card besides the Parhelia along with the most fully featured and robust multi-monitor implementation on the driver level.

Of course if you have the extra money the Parhelia is vastly more powerful, and has unparallelled 2D quality... along with surprisingly good DVD and TV-Out implementation. It's gaming performance stinks at the price it sells for though... but your not likely to be gaming anyway from the sounds of it.

If you simply want the cheapest board available with decent multi-monitor capabilities then the Radeon VE is hard to beat.
It's extremely cheap and has a reasonably decent multi-monitor implementation. 2D quality is pretty good as well, not up to par with Matrox by any means but better then most.

 

[jurzdevil]

Thanks for the suggestions. i think i will get a matrox g550. its just what i am looking for

sean

 

[joe4324]

yet again, Nvidia has NOTHING to do with 2d quality. Your friend probably had a cheaper geforce 3.

get a leadtek Geforce TI series card and you'll see near/at matrox level 2d crispness and color depth. But of course since your not much of a gamer and your system isnt that powerful a geforce 3+ series of card probably would be a waste. the matrox will do you fine.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

If it's agp 1x(or2x) there probably isn't any need in getting the 550 its a 4x part, go with the G400or G450 I'm pretty sure the G400 is an AGP 2x part, I'm not sure about the G450, but you won't be able to feed the 550 enough to keep it very busy and would pretty much be a waste unless you planned on migrating it when you upgraded you current system. The other plus is that all these Matrox cards are dual head. These are all crystal clear on the big 'ol Hitachi 29" tubes that SUN uses for thier SparC workstations. These are .20 dot pitch with huge options on screen sizes running 85Hz though. They weigh a friggin ton.

 

[Jugernot]

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
If it's agp 1x(or2x) there probably isn't any need in getting the 550 its a 4x part, go with the G400or G450 I'm pretty sure the G400 is an AGP 2x part, I'm not sure about the G450, but you won't be able to feed the 550 enough to keep it very busy and would pretty much be a waste unless you planned on migrating it when you upgraded you current system. The other plus is that all these Matrox cards are dual head. These are all crystal clear on the big 'ol Hitachi 29" tubes that SUN uses for thier SparC workstations. These are .20 dot pitch with huge options on screen sizes running 85Hz though. They weigh a friggin ton.

G400 is a 4x AGP part also...

 

[jurzdevil]

Just got the g550 and all i can say is damn. its a lot better than a voodoo5 and and old trident pci for my display. thanks for the input

sean

 

[sc0tty8]

ATI is what I would go with....