Dual DVI AGP video card for Windows 2000

[sciencewhiz]

I'd like a dual DVI card for driving an LCD @ 1280x1024 as the primary display and occasionally expanding the desktop on to a 1080p LCD TV.

The computer I'm trying do this on is a P4 2.4 and currently has a Radeon 9600. I don't really game, so it doesn't have to be a fast card. The ATI HD2400 looks perfect, but it doesn't support Win2k, only XP and above.

I'd like to be able to get it locally (Best Buy, Frys, Staples, etc) so I can get everything set up this weekend.

Any suggestions?

Edit: I'm using all the HDMI inputs on the TV, but it has a free DVI, so I need two DVI, and not 1 DVI and 1 HDMI or component, which I've seen.

 

[mruffin75]

There's *this* Radeon 9600?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16814161154R

You definately won't find it at a retail outlet...so you could forget about that...

It looks like from ATI's driver page that the X850 was the last ATI chip with support for Win2k.. so anything below that would work...

 

[onlyCOpunk]

You could just check around those stores you mentioned for Geforce 6 series. Older cards with Dual DVI were sort of a novelty so they are a bit tougher to find. I too once had this problem and switching the DVI connectors back and fourth just got old. You could always just connect your monitor with VGA, the difference isn't that much and connect to the TV with DVI.

 

[sciencewhiz]

I'm already using the vga on my monitor for another computer, but I did consider that.

I went to Best Buy, and the NVIDIA cards with dual DVI were PCI-e, and the ATI cards were too new to support win2k. Hopefully I'll have better luck at Frys.

 

[PCTC2]

Well, you could always get a VGA dual-computer KVM switch so you could run both computers on the VGA input on the monitor and use the DVI output for the TV.