Video Board Suggestion

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Video Board Suggestion
« on: 16 Nov 2013, 01:50 am »
Iam fully dumb on it and wish suggestions on a video board to run 2 monitos at the same time(with different tasks);
Monitors are:
Main VGA: square 20'' 1280x1024
Second VGA: 9x16 24'' 1920x1200

I dont like DVI ports due inferior image(granulated).
Currently Iam using a Radeon mother board with integrated video board(1Gb), I wound like a board with 3Gb or so.
I dont run games but too many YT videos as 4 or more at the same time.
What are the best brands and models??
Thanks

WGH

Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #1 on: 16 Nov 2013, 04:00 am »
Finding a board with 2 VGA ports is like looking for a needle in a haystack, most will have a VGA and a DVI - at least that is what I found out in Dec. 2011 when I needed a new board. I ended up with a Sapphire Radeon HD6770 Vapor-X. A great card but it only has 1GB memory. I found the card using the Sapphire spread sheet:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/archive/matrix-vga-1_4_048.xls

Amazon shows only 3 cards that have 3GB ram and can output VGA, it would be cheaper to update your monitors.
http://tinyurl.com/mlpstfo

You may be able to use the display port on your motherboard and video card at the same time too.

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Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #2 on: 16 Nov 2013, 04:11 am »
Thanks Wayne;
The monitors both have VGA and DVI.
In 2008 I test the DVi input at the 20'' monitor and dont like the image, it was too granulated and the VGA was perfect.

WGH

Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #3 on: 16 Nov 2013, 04:21 am »
Here is the current Sapphire Spec sheet:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/archive/matrix-vga-1_4_054.xls

Looks like there are 2 cards with native VGA.

I still use a Cornerstone P1750 graphics grade CRT monitor but never tried a DVI adaptor so I'm no help with image quality.

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Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #4 on: 16 Nov 2013, 04:42 am »
Thanks bro.
So I will accept 2 DVI outputs cards suggestions.:|

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Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #5 on: 21 Jan 2014, 02:20 am »
My PC shop supplier inform me there is a Point of View video board avaliable:
4Gb memory, 128bits outputs are Hdmi, VGA and DVI.
http://www.pointofview-online.com/default2.php?content_id=1

I will use the VGA and DVI, the price are resonable.
The carton box show Nvidea, Geforce etc
This is a good brand??
Thanks any input;

srb

Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #6 on: 21 Jan 2014, 02:58 am »
The carton box show Nvidea, Geforce etc
This is a good brand??

Nvidia and AMD own almost the entire market of GPUs for add-on video cards, with Nvidia almost twice the market share of AMD.  GeForce is Nvidia's most popular graphics processor line, but "Nvidia" and "GeForce" merely denote the manufacturer of the processor, not necessarily the manufacturer of the card.

As with motherboards using the same processor, some are designed better than others and have higher performance, greater stability or better feature sets than another.  Although Nvidia does manufacture some select cards, manufacturers such as ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, PNY, VisionTek, Zotac and others manufacturer the bulk of them.

Might want to find out the actual manufacturer and model of yours and see if there are any reviews out there.

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Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #7 on: 21 Jan 2014, 03:17 am »
Thanks Steve.
I have see this video card today at the shop, I remember its looking and cant find it at this site on the link.

But it have a cooler and a white plastic fan and the girls sellers swore it it a 128bits board, not a 64.
But inside the manual this info was completly absent :scratch:
Which seems strange to me.

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Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #8 on: 21 Jan 2014, 05:18 am »
In 2008 I test the DVi input at the 20'' monitor and dont like the image, it was too granulated and the VGA was perfect.

Likely wrong resolution was set.  DVI should be better than VGA assuming the system is configured correctly.

WGH

Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #9 on: 21 Jan 2014, 05:45 am »
Thanks Steve.
I have see this video card today at the shop, I remember its looking and cant find it at this site on the link.

But it have a cooler and a white plastic fan and the girls sellers swore it it a 128bits board, not a 64.
But inside the manual this info was completly absent :scratch:
Which seems strange to me.

A good deal on a "No Name" graphics card. What could possibly go wrong?
You are going to need an iron clad return policy, in writing, signed by the store manager (not the "girls").

I learned a long time ago that you can't build a working, stable computer on the cheap, sorry for the bad news. Buy one of the brands Steve recommends and the card will also have a factory warranty, the industry standard is 3 years. If a card ever fails under warranty the manufacturer will take care of you.

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Re: Video Board Suggestion
« Reply #10 on: 21 Jan 2014, 03:43 pm »
A good deal on a "No Name" graphics card. What could possibly go wrong?
You are going to need an iron clad return policy, in writing, signed by the store manager (not the "girls").

I learned a long time ago that you can't build a working, stable computer on the cheap, sorry for the bad news. Buy one of the brands Steve recommends and the card will also have a factory warranty, the industry standard is 3 years. If a card ever fails under warranty the manufacturer will take care of you.

Wayne
A Zotac 4Gb/128 was avaliable in this shop for a resonable price it had 2 DVI-D only, but it already gone;
So I just buy today this Point of View GT630 also 4Gb/128:

The price was a bit less, and it had VGS and DVI as I like;
Thanks for the support folks, prob solved.
Regards