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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:02:06 -0700
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Video card equivalency?

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continued, I sent prematurely...

I need to have something that is supported by SNAP (3.1.8) and Panorama (future)
*AND* will put out 1920x1200 @ 60Hz for the bios screens. No one will tell me
this last little tidbit. My current card will do it on the VGA interface, but
insists on putting out something higher than 60 Hz on the DVI interface, and the
display won't talk to the card!

I am going to try to call ATI/AMD in the morning. E-mail is futile. They just
point me to their web site for comparisons of their current cards. The specs
don't say what their initial output is.

#$%^&*()!!!!

Thanks!

Steven Levine wrote:
> In <4814C365.8070003@gmail.com>, on 04/27/08
> at 11:18 AM, Tom Brown said:
>
>> Will video cards using the same chipset (ATI Radeon X800 or 9600, for
>> example) but from different manufacturers work the same? I am
>> considering a new video card with an ATI Radeon chipset. Some of these
>> are made by ATI, but many are made by different manufacturers. Should
>> the cards be equivalent?
>
> Generally, I belive the answer is yes. This assumes that the entire
> interface to the video card is through the ATI chipset. I think the
> performance differences are caused by vendors implementing faster RAM or
> higher performance video DACs.
>
> Steven
>

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Tom Brown, Catherder
thomabrown at gmail dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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