I want my Dual DVI!

[mudboy]

I've been waiting patitnly for months for someone to come out with a Dual DVI ATI R300-based video card (one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg), and the wait has been fruitless. The state of the Dual DVI video card market is pretty pathetic, with only a small handful of Dual DVI cards available. This lack of selection is very frustrating to me, so I created an online petition that I intend to forward to a number of video card manufacturers. If you have been frustrated by this lack of availability like I have, please "sign" the petition here:

Http://www.smallformfactor.net/dvi/

Thanks, and tell your friends.

Pete

 

[Peter]

Radeon chips have two heads, but only one of them is multimode (DVI/CRT/TV), the other is CRT-only. Hence, no dual DVI.
None of the other consumer grade chips support that either, SiS, NVidia, S3. Matrox Parhelia in turn can even drive three DVI heads.

 

[nicowju]

Actually, there is/was a Gainward Ti4600 with Dual DVI (I was considering getting it a while ago, but decided to hold off...)

Here's a link to a review of it

EDIT: Yes, GetFatInMyBelly, I know he said Dual R300 DVI. I was merely responding to the above post and giving another option...

 

[GetInMyFatBelly]

He said a Dual Radeon R300 DVI card...

For Dual nVidia GF4, theres the Gainward 4600 and the Asus V9280 VideoSuite 4200 card.

 

[mudboy]

Parhelia can only handle 2 DVI; if you want to run 3 monitors, 1 is DVI and the other 2 are VGA. To make a Dual DVI R300 based card, you just need to add a single TMDS, which is what most manufacturers are doing now anyway.

My point remains that there is little choice; with few choice, there is less competition, and with less competition there is less chance of truly revolutionary advances. If manufacturers realize that there is a demand, then all of that will change.

Pete

 

[rbV5]

To make a Dual DVI R300 based card, you just need to add a single TMDS

The ATI Fire GL-X1 is a Dual DVI R300 board.

 

[heliomphalodon]

Originally posted by: rbV5

To make a Dual DVI R300 based card, you just need to add a single TMDS

The ATI Fire GL-X1 is a Dual DVI R300 board.

Yes, but there's that whole "arm and a leg" problem. :disgust:

 

[Dll]

Hey guys! What other options are available in Dual DVI? Anything in the $449 or lower range?

How do these card stack up to the new NV30 cards coming out?

http://www.pny.com/quadro/products/Prodtemplate.cfm?prodType=1000
http://www.pny.com/quadro/products/Prodtemplate.cfm?prodType=2000

-Rick

 

[mcveigh]

Originally posted by: Dll
Hey guys! What other options are available in Dual DVI? Anything in the $449 or lower range?

How do these card stack up to the new NV30 cards coming out?

http://www.pny.com/quadro/products/Prodtemplate.cfm?prodType=1000
http://www.pny.com/quadro/products/Prodtemplate.cfm?prodType=2000

-Rick

welcome!

those should be out soon, but FX has been promised for months now. I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Dll]

Are the Quadro FX cards essentially just FX cards for the workstation market and therefore more expensive?

 

[lifeguard1999]

The Quadro FX cards are essentially just FX cards for the workstation market and are therefore more expensive.

I run a Quadro 900XGL at work and it is sweet. (I have an 8500 at home.)

 

[beerbong]

im waiting for Parhelia II, if it ever comes out.

 

[jiffylube1024]

What do you expect? Until LCD's become cheaper still and more accepted into the mainstream (ie. on 1 out of every 3 desktops or so), then DVI + VGA will be the norm, with only a few dual DVI cards trickling into the market.

 

[Peter]

That and, let me repeat, none of the consumer grade graphics chips have more than one TMDS output channel to start with. (DVI uses TMDS.) So if any given chip supports a 2nd TMDS channel at all, it'll require an extra chip, adding cost.