Radeon 9800 incompatible with another PCI video card?

pelleplu

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I read in a thread somewhere that the radeon (not sure which model) wasn't compatible with having another PCI vid card in the computer at the same time. Is this true? Cause I was planning on running dual displays on my next computer, which has a Radeon 9800 board. I was thinking of putting in another old ATI PCI card for the second display..
 

eklass

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first off, you card should come with a second DVI connector, and probably a DVI>VGA converter, eliminating the need for a second vid card

secondly, i'm not sure who told you that it can't be used with a second pci video card, but they're lying. i did so my self. what you may be thinking of is you can't placea pci card in the slot right next to the agp video card. that would (at least in the days of old) create a resource conflict, which is bad, very, very, bad.
 

pelleplu

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Originally posted by: eklass
first off, you card <EM>should</EM> come with a second DVI connector, and probably a DVI>VGA converter, eliminating the need for a second vid card

secondly, i'm not sure who told you that it can't be used with a second pci video card, but they're lying. i did so my self. what you may be thinking of is you can't placea pci card in the slot right next to the agp video card. that would (at least in the days of old) create a resource conflict, which is bad, very, very, bad.

Ahh right, it has the DVI connector.. I didn't think about that :) Very nice! Now I won't have to use my ATI Rage128 (I think) card with 8MB of memory just because I need two displays :-D

I just saw it in a thread somewhere, maybe he/she/it was referring to what you said, placing it in the slot next to the agp card. Thanks for clearing this up for me :)