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Feb 12th, 2005 at 11:16pm

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I have an AGP 9700pro on my amd xp3000 system.  i'm wondering if i put a little pci card in there, like the 9200 or similar, if i could then run 3 or 4 monitors off the one computer.

I'm not sure if there would be conflicts between the two, or a huge performance hit (as i understand multiple views to do on a single system).

in my searching i could only find pci card reviews and those said the ati 9100 128-bit pci card is the best of any.  i do have an old 7500 64mb pci card i'll test this next week.

thanks!
 
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Reply #1 - Feb 13th, 2005 at 5:13am

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squall,

Hi and welcome to SimV.

The problem with the idea... which will work... is that your framerates will be determined by the slowest of the two cards.  Which likely will be the pci card. 

For fs2004 most people find that a pci card does not give very good performance... the bottleneck is the speed of the thru-put of the pci buss.

Some of this depends on WHAT you decide to display on the monitor driven by the pci card.  If it is not very demanding graphics images as to drawing them... then maybe it will work OK for you.

Drop down to the "Homebuilt Cockpits" forum and search old threads on this stuff.... there likely is some info there that might be of help.

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