agp/multiple monitors..

[Micro]

On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:57:44 GMT, kra...@my.email.address (krakan)
wrote:

>If AGP uses the special slot on the motherboard, how is one supposed
>to use 2 or more monitors as 98 supports....
>I mean, I see one slot....
Win98 supports multiple monitors using PCI slots only. Since the AGP
standard allows the card in the AGP slot (it doesn't have to be a
video card by the specifications) to directly access and use the main
memory, multiple monitors with multiple AGP slots would be extremely
hard to implement ( even though the AGP spec provides for more than
one AGP slot, not even Intel , its inventor, has figured out how to do
this with todays and the near futures memory and CPU speeds)

Micro

[Eric Gisin]

In article <341741bb...@news.supernews.com>, kra...@my.email.address
says...

>
> If AGP uses the special slot on the motherboard, how is one supposed
> to use 2 or more monitors as 98 supports....
> I mean, I see one slot....

I just read about the latest chipset info at www.s3.com, and they have a
Virge AGP chip with support for one monitor, and a Virge GX2 PCI chip
with support for two monitors.

If you want AGP, you are stuck with one monitor (for now). If you have
four PCI slots available, you can use 8 monitors. I suppose 1 AGP and 4
PCI is also possible.

--
Eric Gisin, London.on.ca -- Windows/UNIX/Internet Consulting
http://www.webhaven.com/ericg/ mailto:er...@techie.com

[Eric Gisin]

In article <34189a3c...@news.supernews.com>, kra...@my.email.address
says...

> On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:19:35 -0400, er...@skynet.ca (Eric Gisin)
> wrote:
> >I just read about the latest chipset info at www.s3.com, and they have a
> >Virge AGP chip with support for one monitor, and a Virge GX2 PCI chip
> >with support for two monitors.
> >

> There have been 2 monitor cards available for quite a while but not
> using memphis and very very pricey.
> Thanks though, I will check when back from a short vacation...

First, a correction, the S3 virge GX2 is a PCI/AGP chip. Too bad the 3D
perfomance is so bad.

I just did a search for GX2 products, but did not find anything but S3
press releases. However the price for the chip is 29$, so I would say you
will be able to buy a dual monitor card with 4MB SGRAM for 100$ shortly.