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  • Don't buy ATI if you have win2k

    Win2K support for ATI radeon has no custom refresh rate support, 3D speed is much lower than what it would be in win98/ME.

    I checked into Hercules/Nvidia and their drivers support custom refresh rates, and have way better win2K driver support.
    I would stay away from creative labs, if anyone ownes a soundcard from them that should tell you how slow ass they are getting new drivers out

  • #2
    If you brought up 3dfx, you would have completed the circle and posted the most off-topic thread in recent memory.

    Paul
    paulcs@flashcom.net

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    • #3
      heh. Don't buy ATI if you use any OS.....DOS should be good but you never know....I wonder if ATI cards support Vesa 3.0? TNT1-Geforce 3 does!
      C:\DOS
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      • #4
        I've got a Triniton monitor.
        Can i buy an Radeon card
        Athlon Thunderbird 1.1Ghz@1.2~1.3+GHz Socket A 256Kb,Asus A7V dipswitches,GlobalWin FOP32-1 heatsink,GlobalWin 802 Advance ATX Case, 17" Sony Multiscan 200PST,384MB Crucial PC133 CAS=2,ATI Radeon 32Mb DDR,(Matrox Millenium G400 MAX 32MB 5ns SGRAM),IBM Deskstar 75GXP 15Gb UltraATA/100, Quantum Firebal EL 10.2Gb,Hewlett Packard DeskJet 970Cxi,Epson Perfection 1240U Scanner,Sound blaster Live!,Cambridge Soundworks 5.1,Creative PC-DVD 5X,CDR-RW Ricoh MP7040S@MP7060S(Tweaked from 4x--->6x with no problem),Adaptec SCSI 2920C,Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO,Iomega Zip Drive.

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        • #5
          Öh general hardware anyone?

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          • #6
            3dfx! 3dfx! 3dfx! 3dfx! 3dfx! -
            Sorry - couldn't resist, as 3dfx supports *any* custom resolution and *any* custom refresh rate under Win2K.

            Sadly, I'm still struggling to get 960x540 - a perfectly common 16:9 HDTV aspect ratio - to work at any refresh rate with any Matrox card... No joy so far. (:

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            • #7
              Ashley ... check out this thread over at AVS.
              <TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>

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              • #8
                Off to General Hardware
                Core2 Duo E7500 2.93, Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gig 1066 DDR2, 1gig Asus ENGTS250, SB X-Fi Gamer ,WD Caviar Black 1tb, Plextor PX-880SA, Dual Samsung 2494s

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by DosFreak:
                  ...DOS should be good but you never know....I wonder if ATI cards support Vesa 3.0? TNT1-Geforce 3 does!
                  Does the G200/G400/G450 support VESA 3??? NO!!!
                  my system:

                  AMD XP 2000+
                  Abit KTA7 (VIA 4.49)
                  512MB SDRAM133
                  Matrox Millennium G400 MAX (5.91, AGP 2x)
                  Windows XP Prof

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                  • #10
                    xortam - Thanks for the link - excellent thread, smart people. But they are only talking about Win9x, where 960x540 works with lots of cards, not just Matrox.

                    I was talking about Win2K - where 960x540 does NOT work, at least not with the latest 520 driver and MTSTU305...

                    Any ideas? Anyone?

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                    • #11
                      I don't see why it shouldn't. I can check into that.

                      Rags

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                      • #12
                        LOL

                        While were all talking off topic, I might as well chip in

                        I've got an ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO in my second PC at the moment, and I can confirm it does indeed suck. Big styleee.

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                        • #13
                          Please do. I tried a couple of other lower resolution 16:9 modes as well, with no success either.

                          Higher resolutions with 4:3 ratios work OK, like e.g., 1000x750, so its not a "general" problem.

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                          • #14
                            Ashley,

                            You don't suppose that PowderSniff corrupted that bios do you?

                            Hugh G.

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                            • #15
                              LOL... Ho Hugh - I'm a little too old to have problems like that...

                              The second head on the G450 does spin round and round from time to time and levitate off the desk though...

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