My question to Matrox Tech support was;
Hi,
I'm putting together a new sytstem and because my current system has a triple monitor set up I wanted to do the same with my new one. I wish to use, if possible, only two vid cards for the triple monitor setup(hence the dual head card) in order to free up a PCI slot for other use. But can I use a G450 Dual head PCI with another AGP Vid Card for triple monitor desktop?
I plan on using Windows XP Home:
AMD Athlon XP 1800 CPU
Abit KR7A Raid
512 DDR PC 2100 RAM
GForce 3 TI 200 64 MB VID CARD AGP
Matrox G450 Dual head PCI VID CARD
ATI tv Wonder PCI
2 X WESTERN 60 GB 7200 HD
LITE-ON 24X CD-RW
LG 16X DVD Rom
LG 52 X CD Rom
Will this work?
His reply was;
Matrox G450 pci card will disable bus mastering on non intel chipsets. We havd a few faqs about it in our common questions faq forum. It will work with your set up but you have to keep in mind that whatever problems you may havee, 1st thing we will tell you is to take out the agp card (if it's not ours) before we begin troubleshooting our card. Haig
Please exscuse my ignorance but when he says "Matrox G450 pci card will disable bus mastering on non intel chipsets", what does that mean for me in this particular setup?
Will the Matrox card work? Will I have triple monitor funtionality? Will I lose too much performance on my secondary monitors to make this card worth my while? Should I just go with three separate vid cards for my triple monitor setup and if yes, which ones would you suggest?
Hi,
I'm putting together a new sytstem and because my current system has a triple monitor set up I wanted to do the same with my new one. I wish to use, if possible, only two vid cards for the triple monitor setup(hence the dual head card) in order to free up a PCI slot for other use. But can I use a G450 Dual head PCI with another AGP Vid Card for triple monitor desktop?
I plan on using Windows XP Home:
AMD Athlon XP 1800 CPU
Abit KR7A Raid
512 DDR PC 2100 RAM
GForce 3 TI 200 64 MB VID CARD AGP
Matrox G450 Dual head PCI VID CARD
ATI tv Wonder PCI
2 X WESTERN 60 GB 7200 HD
LITE-ON 24X CD-RW
LG 16X DVD Rom
LG 52 X CD Rom
Will this work?
His reply was;
Matrox G450 pci card will disable bus mastering on non intel chipsets. We havd a few faqs about it in our common questions faq forum. It will work with your set up but you have to keep in mind that whatever problems you may havee, 1st thing we will tell you is to take out the agp card (if it's not ours) before we begin troubleshooting our card. Haig
Please exscuse my ignorance but when he says "Matrox G450 pci card will disable bus mastering on non intel chipsets", what does that mean for me in this particular setup?
Will the Matrox card work? Will I have triple monitor funtionality? Will I lose too much performance on my secondary monitors to make this card worth my while? Should I just go with three separate vid cards for my triple monitor setup and if yes, which ones would you suggest?
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