What's the fastest dual head card out there?

[MTAX]

Dual VGA or combo VGA/DVI

Thanks.

 

[Rand]

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro.

Assuming your referring to gaming performance that is.

 

[MTAX]

Thanks,

I didn't realize that the 9700 is a dual head.

 

[BurnItDwn]

i didn't think it would do dualheadud gaming either ... The fastest i know of is the trippleheaded parhelia .. and its only a bit faster than a GF3 ... but costs as much as a radeon 9700

 

[Deeko]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Radeon 9700 Pro.

 

[Wolfsraider]

ati 9700 pro

mine has dvi w/converter and analog

using ultramon you have more choices than hydravision

mike

 

[ChefJoe]

I used a Radeon VE for dual monitors for a while, then realized that one graphics card and dual monitors isn't the way to go. Picked up a Radeon 7000 PCI in a hot deal and all is good. Truth is, single GPU doesn't do well with dual monitors, the refresh rates tend to be low.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I think all of the GeForce4 Ti line supports multiple displays. It's just up to the card makers to add the connectors. For instance, Gainward has a dual DVI card based on the GF4 Ti4600.

-SUO

 

[beerbong]

joe: i guess you have never used a matrox card. Matrox has the best dual head hands down. In fact they are the only company with dual head, nobody else has it. the other companies call there crap nview, or hyrdavison or something. If you must have good picture quality on both monitors get a matrox card. check out this review.

http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/matrox_parhelia/index.shtml

Its a new review after updated drivers. hardware sits didnt give good old matrox a chance with parhelia.

 

[Shooters]

Originally posted by: ChefJoe
I used a Radeon VE for dual monitors for a while, then realized that one graphics card and dual monitors isn't the way to go. Picked up a Radeon 7000 PCI in a hot deal and all is good. Truth is, single GPU doesn't do well with dual monitors, the refresh rates tend to be low.

Dual output cards have dual RAMDACs which allow you to independently set the refresh of each display.

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: Shooters

Originally posted by: ChefJoe
I used a Radeon VE for dual monitors for a while, then realized that one graphics card and dual monitors isn't the way to go. Picked up a Radeon 7000 PCI in a hot deal and all is good. Truth is, single GPU doesn't do well with dual monitors, the refresh rates tend to be low.

Dual output cards have dual RAMDACs which allow you to independently set the refresh of each display.

Not mention two grapohics cards are entirely dependent upon the OS for the multi-monitor feature set.
I personally MUCH prefer using one graphics card for multi-monitor, and as said above Matrox definitely has the best multi-monitor implementation available IMHO.

 

[Spicedaddy]

Radeon 9700 Pro with Ultramon.


Just as good as Matrox for dual-head (two 400MHz RAMDACs), better than anything else for gaming. 🙂