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"Steve Rossiter" <SRossiter@msn.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.19b1d5d0ec36ba29989697@news.fullerton.edu...
> Hi,
>   I'll be buying a 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro
> http://www.necmitsubishi.com/products/home/ProductDetail.cfm?product_i
> d=232&division=MITSUBISHI and am now looking a various cards to drive
> this monstrosity. Mitsubishi specs say it can go to 2048 x 1536 @  86
> and my job now is to match it to a card provide the signal. Although I
> will probably have the screen set to 2048 x 1536 I figure if the card
> can do this it will be able to provide viewing at lower resolutions
> flicker free.
>   My needs are to provide clean displays of various large data sets in
> 2D, sometimes rotate them in 3D and a little low-tech gaming like Age
> of Empires, Sim City. I'm a little confused because cards advertised
> with 64 MB, 128 MB, or now 256 MB of memory all claim to be able to
> display at resolutions near to my 2048 x 1536 benchmark so there must
> be more than aggregate memory that determines ability to run large
> monitors at high resolutions.
>   The Matrox P750 seems to a reliable choice for the job but lacks
> some of the fun stuff of say the ATI AIW 9000 Pro or GeForce4 Ti 4600.
> Will $150-$200 get me a reliable, flicker free card that can display
> at high resolutions (that way I can see more of the data set) or am I
> asking too much of a card in this price range?
> One last question. What is the end result of setting the screen to a
> resolution and refresh rate that the card doesn't list? For example,
> the monitor mentioned above lists a capability to display 1800 x 1440
> @ 92 Hz but the closest a Radeon 9800 Pro comes in terms of its spec
> sheet is 1920x1080 @ 120. How would this display on the screen?
> Thanks for the help with these questions.

Most any 64 card should meet your requirements. Matrox OWNS the 2D space.

As to your question about running the card at a resolution and refresh that
the monitor doesnt expressly support...

the display goes blank.

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