Les <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Do I understand that this will work with up to 4 30" monitors? WOW. AS > someone who is loosing vision, this is great news. One card will, at most, have 2 DVI connectors (each either single-link or dual-link). Dual-link just means that it has two sets of data-wires for doubling the bandwidth. 4-Megapixel monitors need to double up the data links in order to move all that data in the 1/60th of a second a reasonable refresh takes. > Any recommendations on video cards? I don't like noisy miniature fans on my cards, so I opted for a slower pcie card with a "mobile" Radeon HD 3450 chipset on it. I got the MSI R3450-TD256H version of it, although quite a few manufacturers make cards based on this ATI chip. These cards run around $50 mail order. http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=R3450-TD256H&class=vga The Radeon 3450's have gotten quite a bit of press lately. It looked legit enough so I decided to give it a try. I should have my MSI card on Monday so I'll be able to report back how F9's Xorg gets along with it. If it works, I'll pick up the 30" Samsung 305T to go along with it. At 30" and twice the pixel count I now have, I don't think I'll lose too much sleep over not having a dual, dual-link setup. Normally I'm all for overkill, but getting two of those monitors would be over-overkill. ;-) One thing to watch out for is some manufacturers run the Radeon 3450 graphics chip harder than they should. Companies like Saphire have plenty of Google hits claiming that their Radeon 3450 card runs very hot and eventually crashes the system. MSI had only folks saying their Radeon 3450 card ran cool to the touch. That is really what swayed me away from the dual-dvi Saphire card, even though having two dvi's would have been nice. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
