filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-10 Thread Colin Maddock
Larry wrote: >Anyone want to buy a 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGPGraphics Card??? You said you were getting rid of this card to replace it with a two head one, as I remember, but otherwise would you recommend the GeForce2 MX card, from some manufacturer or another, for we filmscanner people? C

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-10 Thread Larry Berman
Colin, I've not yet used the card. It was the least expensive option when ordering my new system from Dell. I went that route because I had planned on getting a dual monitor card anyway. That being said, I'm sure it's fine for graphics. It just doesn't support dual monitors which is my prefere

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread Rob Geraghty
"Colin Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Anyone want to buy a 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGPGraphics Card??? > You said you were getting rid of this card to replace it with a two head one, as I > remember, but otherwise would you recommend the GeForce2 MX card, from > some manufacturer or ano

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread shAf
Rob writes ... > "Colin Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Anyone want to buy a 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGPGraphics Card??? > > You said you were getting rid of this card to replace it with a two head > one, as I > > remember, but otherwise would you recommend the GeForce2 MX card, from

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread Colin Maddock
Larry, Thanks for the reply about the GeForce2 MX graphics card. Hope it wasn't too hard tearing yourself away from the new computer to make it ;-). There's no doubt that the Matrox G450 is a good card, Tom's Hardware site particularly mentions the "excellent 2D performance and razor s

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread Rob Geraghty
"shAf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since when did video cards or their drivers become capable of CM, > or need to be ICM aware? Rather, the video card and its driver, > simply need make available the color LUT so CM > characterization/calibration softwares like Adobe Gamma can modify it. Do

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread Derek Clarke
Both the G450 and the dual-head GeForce cards use a slower less-capable DAC for the second port, so it can't manage quite the same resolution / refresh rate combination. If you want the truly ultimate multi-monitor system you have to find an adaptor available as AGP _and_ PCI and use two or mo

Re: filmscanners: Graphics Cards

2001-03-11 Thread shAf
Rob writes ... > Does it matter how it's done? The point is that some cards *cannot* adjust > the gamma to give a correct display. ... You mean they don't make their CLUT available for ^any^ software's ability to adjust it, which hasn't much to do with CM. CM takes over simply because the