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OT: Large LCD monitors for PC

We have a couple of these at work:
http://www.amazon.com/IOGear-2-Port-MiniView-Switch-GCS632U/dp/B0001BVXI6
($27)

They're OK-but-not-great: It doesn't take too much effort to find a keyboard
or mouse that they don't like, and we even have one laptop that wouldn't work
with it at all (that was a bit shocking).

I had one that worked for a while. They aren't cheap and are too unreliable.
I had a PS/2 KVM for years without problems.
KVMs with DVI video connections immediately push the price up closer to
$100... and KVMs with dual-link DVI connections are closer to $200!

Yep. Too much, considering the cost of a PC these days.
 
It got top ratings, or you could probe the forum there ITIO, (If There
Is One). I think EVGA might also still actually answer the phone with a
real human within a few steps as well. They would likely already know
many scenarios, and failure modes. There was a time when getting such
info from a company was like pulling teeth.

They're all the same inside, no? The drivers come from the same place? How
is one different from another?
 
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Joerg

Jan 1, 1970
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On a bed of smoldering components?


No, charcoal. A couple hours from now I'll cook pizza in the barbecue.
Have to make sure the wood stove has burned down enough by then so I can
snatch some coals for an instant start. That avoids having to deal with
a starter chimney in the rain.
 
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AllInTheChi

Jan 1, 1970
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I doubted that too. But I didn't assume anything. You seem to think asking
"why" was critical of your suggestion. It's a lot cheaper than a quad
monitor card, but there's nothing wrong with asking.

There is no such animal as a quad monitor card.

Folks with four are using TWO cards in SLI mode or the stupid ATI CRAP.

Try to keep up.

Oh and don't go dig up some lame $5k workstation card that no consumer
would ever buy to begin with, ditz.
 
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ItchyGato

Jan 1, 1970
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They're all the same inside, no? The drivers come from the same place? How
is one different from another?


One works, and the other doesn't.
 
No, charcoal. A couple hours from now I'll cook pizza in the barbecue.
Have to make sure the wood stove has burned down enough by then so I can
snatch some coals for an instant start. That avoids having to deal with
a starter chimney in the rain.

One of the pizza joints by my son has a wood-fired pizza oven. It's rather
good, even with a mediocre pizza recipe. I though pizza needed a pretty
massive stone base to get it to cook right though.
 
There is no such animal as a quad monitor card.

AlwaysWrong is, well, *always* wrong.

Consumer grade (~$150) quad monitor cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ption=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

Professional quad monitors ($600):
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_series/m9140lppciex16/


Professional grade - eight monitors ($1800):
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/graphics_cards/m_series/m9188pciex16/
Folks with four are using TWO cards in SLI mode or the stupid ATI CRAP.

Try to keep up.

Try to get started.
Oh and don't go dig up some lame $5k workstation card that no consumer
would ever buy to begin with, ditz.

Wouldn't think of it, DimBulb.
 
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Joerg

Jan 1, 1970
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One of the pizza joints by my son has a wood-fired pizza oven. It's rather
good, even with a mediocre pizza recipe. I though pizza needed a pretty
massive stone base to get it to cook right though.

A stone oven would be ideal but I haven't gone that far yet. We use the
steel base plate from my first homemade computer that I took apart a few
years ago <sob, sniffle>. Aluminum foil on top, and the pizza on that.
Coals on the side and some fire brick for wood stoves to keep the direct
heat away from the steel plate. Takes about 25mins, yummmmy. We always
cook two. The 2nd one bakes while we eat and then goes into the freezer
after it has cooled off. That 2nd pizza is cooked a bit less so the
re-heating later puts it at just the right crispiness for our taste.

40 more minutes ...
 
Lowest price I see is $165 with free shipping. The $190 one has good
reviews.. 3 DVI monitors and a big-ass TV off one cheap card.

That's a *long* way from AlwaysWrong's $5K figure. It's firmly in the
"consumer" space.
 
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AllInTheChi

Jan 1, 1970
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Nice snip, retard.

I TOLD YOU, ONLY consumer cards.

Quadro cards are NOT consumer cards.

Lenovo is a graphics card maker wanna be 512MB RAM across 4 ports!?
You're an idiot!

Oh yeah, and I also said that ATI CRAP doesn't qualify as well.

Not only that but they are so fucking slow that someone that plays
games on the machine would laugh at them.

Yeah... good job, dumbass.

Sniptards like you... **** off.
 
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AllInTheChi

Jan 1, 1970
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Try to get started.


Try to play a 3D game with the shit card you listed first.


I was finished before you got started. The rest, do not qualify.
Remember to learn how to read.
 
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AllInTheChi

Jan 1, 1970
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Try to get started.


Wouldn't think of it, DimBulb.


Oh boy! FOUR VGA outputs!

It is SHIT, dumbass.

DVI-D is the minimum, and without any RAM to speak of all they are is a
monitor. Working with 3D graphics or ANY motion and ray traced realms
would puke on them.

Try showing me something that works faster than my old Trident 1MB
card.

Oh, that's right... you are too goddamned dumb for that.

I did the research, idiot. I was finished before you ever got started.
 
Try to play a 3D game with the shit card you listed first.

Moving the goalposts doesn't make you right, AlwaysWrong. You will always be
AlwaysWrong.
I was finished before you got started. The rest, do not qualify.
Remember to learn how to read.

They *all* qualify under even your requirements. You need to learn how to
talk, then walk, DimBulb. Hell, even sucking your thumb would be an
accomplishment.
 
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