nView vs HydraVision

[Athlon4all]

I recentley have had my first portray into the Dual Monitor world, and I like it!!!! I'm using right now my GF2MX 400 with a Trident '94 card, and they're working great, and a plesent suprise was despite I was not using an nView capable card, I was able to use it and it was very easy to set up. Now, I am looking at getting a Multi-Monitor capable AGP card, and my price range is more or less $85. I was looking originally at a GF4MX 440 but none of the cards in this price range have the DVI so, I looked at the R7500 and there are a few vendors selling R7500 DDR's Retail boxes with the DVI-VGA Adapter for my price range, so I am just wondering if HydraVision is that harder to setup compared to nView, thanks!!!!

 

[PG]

The Radeon 7500 is a nice card, but I like Nview's ability to play a DVD on the secondary monitor. I don't think that's possible with Hydavision. Of course that Nview feature only works with XP so if you run something else it doesn't matter.

 

[tenoc]

Don't know about nView. Setting up dualies with my R8500 was a snap.

 

[Peter]

The 7500 chip supports only one overlay window. I don't know (yet) whether it can be on any of the heads. I'll know soon, still waiting for my 7500LE card to arrive.

regards, Peter

 

[gregor7777]

I'm not sure if this applies, but with my 8500 I can run an overlay -> fullscreen (for DVD , etc.) on my second monitor and play a game or surf the internet on my main monitor at the same time.

Really easy to set up to, just had to enable theatre mode.