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For reference, this would be for Visual Studio 2008 with a fair amount of WinForms working with the VS Designer.
Given the same price bracket, would there be certain specs you look for in a development rig vs what one would get for a gaming machine?
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Started by Davy8 on
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Any new video card you could buy today would be more than adequate for non-3D software development be for multiple monitor support, in that case you would need to get an extra $50 video card since most (all) isn't really taxing....
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Would a separate PCI-E video card provide benefits to a user who currently uses onboard video?
The onboard video card is on an Intel DG35EC . The onboard video is Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3500 . The shared memory is set in the BIOS and maxed ...
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There have been times....
It may provide slight is if you are running an LCD that supports DVI input and your on-board video card only has VGA output upgrade.
It doesn't sound like you would benefit from adding a PCI-E video card.
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Hello,
I installed a PCI video card (Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB PCI from EVGA) into my Ubuntu 8 system (on a Dell e510 machine) which was previously running on board video. When i booted the system, disabled the onboard vga in the system BIOS, which...
Started by Roy Rico on
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First search for nvidia....
Have you tried looking in the Ubuntu support forums? I've found tons of valuable advice there .
Not being as spiffy with x.conf as I'd like to be, I'm not sure what to check next .
Still sounds like some sort of driver conflict.
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I thin that the commom scenarios for multiple monitors is one video card with 2+ video outs or 1 PCI-express video card and 1+ PCI video cards.
What video cards have good prices in both situations?
Started by Click Ok on
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I think, future is DisplayPort.
Old cards resolution, like 1920x1200, you need card with Dual Link DVI.
Connect two monitors (LCD) to PC is graphic card with two DVI connectors (best picture for LCD).
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Is it better to buy one video card to drive four monitors or two video cards to drive four monitors?
These are the options from Dell, and I'd like to be able to drive 3-4 monitors. This would be for business use. No Games...
Which card combination works best for normal business use?
1.5GB NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 4800, DUAL MON, 2DP & 1DVI 1.0GB ATI FirePro...
Started by ScArcher2 on
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If one card dies then....
I would use two cards , because although the performance of moving data from one card to another may suffer ...
For normal office applications you should be OK with one quad monitor card.
For example.
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I'm trying to get an old PCI video card (Diamond Stealth 2500) along with a normal PCI-E video card.
In BIOS, there is a setting to switch between PEG/PCI or PCI/PEG on startup (PEG is PCI-E Graphics). When I use PCI/PEG only the old PCI card works, when...
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If your primary video card uses the WDDM 1.0 model, then you will not be able to use primary video....
I know it fits in the computer, but there are no official diamond stealth 2500 video card configurations .
Windows 7.
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I am looking to get a "recommended video card" for working with reasonably intensive graphics in WPF. I know a lot of cards with enough onboard memory will handle it but is there a particlar set which is "more suited"?
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Started by Rob on
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My onboard Intel graphics can display quite a fancy WPF even a cheap graphics card....
There are not really any recommended video cards, If you get yourself a descent graphics card X, and nearly every card can handle that.
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We have at the moment quite a few spare 19" flat panel monitors at the office. My little desktop currently only has a single video output from an on-board video card.
What would be a good card to buy so I can connect 3 19" 1280x1024 monitors to my PC?...
Started by James Dean on
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If....
Most motherboards will automatically disable the on-board video when a dedicated video card or G400/450.
You can take a look at Matrox G450.
Using the on-board video at the same time you use a video card.
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I currently have a dual monitor setup, but I would like to expand to 3 monitors. My motherboard only supports 1 PCI-E card, so I was wondering if it's possible to head a triple-output video card? It seems almost all cards are dual-output, but I haven'...
Started by Jon Tackabury on
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The M....
The ATI Radeon HD 5750 costs around $135-monitor video cards.
The ATI Radeon HD 5670 would be the entry level card, price around $100 .
With independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays.
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My current specs are as follows:
Motherboard: ASuS P5NSlI Processor: Pentium D Dual Core 2.8Ghz RAM: 2GB DDR2 Video Card: XFX NVidia 9400GT
I am having some video performance issues in my PC games (low framerates) on my machine even on a freshly installed...
Started by Papuccino1 on
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Do I need to upgrade my video card? If I do, what things....
Just because a video card has a higher model number does not mean it is more powerful.
Performance will vary greatly depending on the resolution of your monitor also .
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