Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:47:30 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> Subject: Re: video card for 2048x1536 at 85hz? (rage128 or radeon?) Message-ID: <000601c17f3e$df1faee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200112071635.fB7GZNA06644@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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Richard writes: > The motherboard will be the dual athlon tyan, > whose video isn't up to what I need. We're > getting the 21" sony, and I want to be able to > drive it at the full 2048x1536@85hz. You're wasting your time. Even at a stripe pitch of 0.23 mm, which would be very good for a monitor (my own Sony is 0.26), the highest resolution you can support on a 21" monitor is about 1700x1275; anything beyond that, and individual pixels will be concealed by the phosphor stripes. The best I can do on my 20" Sony is 1600x1200, and it just so happens that each pixel just about covers a phosphor triad, so there is no point in going any further for a monitor this size.(I'm happy to report, though, that the Sony monitor still manages to resolve individual pixels, even at this rock-bottom minimum size.) So, unless you plan to get at least a 26" monitor, 2048x1536 will do you no good at all, and may even present problems (because details covering individual pixels will not be visible on the monitor). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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