Confused. Is the GF4 Ti series dual head?

[BrunoPuntzJones]

I've been reading trying to figure this out. Do all the GF4 Ti cards feature dual head output? Like I have a PNY GF4 Ti4400 (vga, svideo, and tv out). Is it correct that I could hook 2 monitors up to this card and use it as dual displays? Will I be able to have it as 2 seperate desktops? Like I can have an article on my main screen, then drag it over to my secondary and maximize it over there?

Do I just need a DVI to VGA adapter? Would be handy as I could get rid of my secondary monitor card.

 

[SunnyD]

Ripped from PNY's product's page...

Ti 4400 Features & Benefits
128MB DDR memory
8.8GB/sec. memory bandwidth
Unique maroon-colored card
Lightspeed Memory Architecture? (LMA) II
NVIDIA nfiniteFX? II engine
Enhanced Vertex and Pixel shaders, with new Z-Correct Bump Mapping technology
NVIDIA nView Display Technology <----- Is this what you're looking for?
Accuview? Antialiasing
Dual Vertex Shaders
Advanced Pixel Shaders
3D textures
Shadow buffers
Z-Correct Bump Mapping
Lossless Z Compression
Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
TV-Out and Video Modules
Microsoft® DirectX®, 8.X and OpenGL Optimizations

Note the highlighted line...

It's not "dual head", that's a Matrox word. Hydravision is ATi's word. nView is NVIDIA's word.

SunnyD

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Yeah see I don't really know what nView does

Can't find anything that spells it out exactly. Does it just do the same thing on each monitor? Or can you do it like an extended desktop?

 

[SunnyD]

nView is the same thing as "TwinView" was as a marketing feature on the older MX cards, and the same thing as HydraVision on the ATi cards. They give you two connectors (happens that one is DVI the other is analog in this case - but they do that for all the flat-panel lovers out there), and the chip supports two monitors. Just plug everything in, and enbale nView in the drivers, select each desktop up and configure them to your liking (rez, color depth, refresh, etc.) and you're on your way. Same thing as having two seperate video cards in the same machine.

So to answer your question, yes. It supports it. Though if it didn't come with the product, you'll need a DVI-to-analog adapter to use a standard CRT or analog flat panel on the DVI port (I know ATi's Radeon 8500 Retails come with that particular part).

SunnyD

 

[SunnyD]

Oh yeah - is't the OS that handles WHAT exactly you do on each monitor. There's a little checkbox in Windows that will say "Span desktop across all devices", which gives you one big giant desktop. Otherwise, the secondary monitor will be left blank.

SunnyD