Video card recommendation

[Scott Mellott]

Better make sure your graphics board supports dual link DVI at that 
resolution.  All DVI outputs of grphx boards supports single link 
(1920x1200 max) but, not all grphx boards support DL DVI (max rez 
3840x2400).

Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> 21", no, but go up to 30":
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824185012
> 2560x1600 sounds delicious.  For the price, though, it should.
>
> --DTVZ
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name 
> <mailto:tom at buskey.name>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Drew Van Zandt
>     <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com <mailto:drew.vanzandt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         My first thought on seeing them was "Oh good, rotate them and
>         they're perfect."
>
>         Now the question is this:
>         Do I want a 1680x1050 rotated to 1050x1680, or a 1600x1200
>         rotated to 1200x1600?  That's close enough on height that the
>         increased total real estate of the 1600x1200 is still tempting...
>
>         --DTVZ
>
>
>     I'm interested in the rotating thing.  I use the vertical more
>     then I use horizontal.
>
>     I've been fighting a failing high res CRT and looking for a
>     replacement.
>     I'm running 2 monitors at 1860x1440 each.  Try finding a 21" LCD
>     that does beyond x1200.  Or a CRT nowadays :-(
>
>     I was running x1600 before I upgraded Fedora and my X settings
>     bumped it down to x1440.  My 40+ yr old eyes have decided to just
>     do x1440 instead of upping the font size in gnome-terminal.  I'm
>     not ready to give up another 2" of vertical screen resolution.
>
>     I have a linux tablet that runs  800x600.  A script to rotate X11
>     on it does the trick except some gnome control apps really don't
>     like it.  I had my app rotate its view instead.
>
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