Re: Dual monitor PCI Express video cards

In article <MPG.1e7cc05ced9b6b1098c1d7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Conor says...

In article <dut1a50fug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Patrick Flaherty says...
Hi,

My first home-built was 2 yrs ago. Athlon XP 2000+ (1.5 GHz), Asus A7N8X-E
mobo, gig of memory, etc. Big improvement on the 1GHz Pentium (Pentium Pro
even?) machine that my company had given me for a home machine. (plus this one
I owned).

Getting a little long in the tooth, and much as occurred between.

Thinking about an Athlon 64 X2 of some kind. This means PCI Express and I have
to get a new video card.

No it doesn't. The Asrock 939 Dual SATA 2 motherboard has both AGP and
PCIe, supports all current socket 939 CPUs and will support the new M2
with the addition of an adapter board.



Hi Conor,

I said implies PCI Express (and not AGP) because, by way of a new mobo, I was
pretty much looking at the Asus A8N-E. Which has some backwards-compatible PCI
slots but not AGP.

Yes if I look at other motherboards, I can get something with socket 939 and
AGP.

As I figure this out further though (and realize that a dual mon 2560X1024 PCI
Express card isn't necessarily going to cost me that much) I'm all that much
more inclined to stay with a mobo that has only PCI Express for its video.

pat

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