Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-13 Thread Geke
Trickster, Wow, G5 is certainly a different league than G4, also regarding graphic card prices! Then the best option (for little money) indeed seems to be the ADC adapter... Or, maybe, a PCI graphics card for the second screen, but those could also be expensive, if you want to make best use of the

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Bill Connelly
On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:42, Charles Lenington so eloquently wrote: On 11/12/10 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and th

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/12 09:42, Charles Lenington so eloquently wrote: On 11/12/10 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and the other is not? I have a 6800 Ultra that is dual

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Charles Lenington
On 11/12/10 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and the other is not? I have a 6800 Ultra that is dual-link but I don't know if it's just on one port or both. Tin

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and the other is not? I have a 6800 Ultra that is dual-link but I don't know if it's just on one port or both. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2G

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Ted Treen
From: Trickster To: G-Group Sent: Friday, 12 November, 2010 15:41:02 Subject: Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor Thanks for the link Ted. I currently have a 5200 in there... thoughts on an upgrade path? My G5 has a 256MB 9650 in there:- The Mac's an early 2005

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Trickster
Thanks for the link Ted. I currently have a 5200 in there... thoughts on an upgrade path? On Nov 11, 6:27 am, Geke wrote: > You could also put in an extra (used) graphic card in a PCI slot. > Those are really cheap. > But if you're not that tight, you could consider replacing the current > AGP c

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-11 Thread Geke
You could also put in an extra (used) graphic card in a PCI slot. Those are really cheap. But if you're not that tight, you could consider replacing the current AGP card by a better one. I don't know how good the factory-installed cards in the G5 are, but when I wanted to connect a DVI monitor to

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-10 Thread Ted Treen
Trickster wrote: Hi Everyone, Have a Powermac g5, running 10.5, 7 gigs of ram, 2x1B drives. Is my primary machine, and an upgrade just isnt in the cards at the moment. Want to add dual monitor support, but am looking for an ADC- DVI adaptor at the moment. Can anyone point me in the right dire

ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-10 Thread Trickster
Hi Everyone, Have a Powermac g5, running 10.5, 7 gigs of ram, 2x1B drives. Is my primary machine, and an upgrade just isnt in the cards at the moment. Want to add dual monitor support, but am looking for an ADC- DVI adaptor at the moment. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks Pete