That's not as much an issue these days as they're typically using integrated RAMDAC's for both outputs now, rather than using a cheap external RAMDAC for the second output.
-Adam Markus Maurer wrote: > Hi John > while I agree with what you write about the excellent 2D/3D performance of > recent Nvidia and ATI cards, their video signal especially on the secondary > port is very poor and gets even poorer . The only manufacturer that has good > results signal wise in that price range was and is Matrox and their multi > monitor software is among the best as well. Just don't try to play games or > run open-gl and other 3D apps with it. > greetings > Markus > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > John Francis > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 8:43 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Computer Problems > > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:58:50PM -0600, William Robb wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bob Shell" >> Subject: Re: Computer Problems >> >> >>> Speaking of which, what video cards do you folks favor? I need to >>> put together a Windows box for video editing, so I know I need a fast >>> processor and plenty of RAM, but I know zip about video cards. Oh, >>> and I need to build this super cheap, too. >> I'll second the vote for Matrox. Noritsu uses them in their printer >> workstations. >> The NVidea ones seem to do allright for a lower priced card. >> >> William Robb > > The latest generation of nVidia cards do a little more than "allright". > > These things make dual-core or quad-core processors look like antiques. > They have 128 floating-point processors on the chip, together with all > sorts of switches, buses, interconnects, etc. And you can even write > your own programs to make use of those processors, if you are brave > enough. There's enough processing power there to perform a 36 by 36 > filter kernel (such as the best quality sampling in PT assembler) at > HDTV rates - 2MP at 60Hz. To perform Bayer interpolation, auto levels, > etc. on a 10MP RAW image would take at most a few milliseconds (or, more > practically, allow far more sophisticated reconstruction algorithms than > the fairly limited ones being used today). They even have native sRGB > support built in to the hardware. > > I suspect we'll see a future version of Lightroom that implements the > processing pipe as a GPGPU instruction stream, and will go directly > from your RAW images to the final output at real-time speeds. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
