IW
09-05-2001, 09:41 PM
I have a job at a college library where they want to use 3 LCD flat panels, Viewsonic 15" digital with DFP connectors that are no longer a standard. (I suspect they bought the panels a long time ago, throwing away taxpayer money while they sat on the shelf all this time.) I can handle the conversion to DVI with an adapter or cable...but...
There seem to be few reasonably priced PCI video cards with support for digital output. The card that would have been ideal seems to be out of production: ATI Xpert LCD PCI, 8 MB. The college's purchasing department hasn't determined yet whether any of the 3 relatively obscure Internet sites that claim to have them are ones they'll deal with or if they really have 3 cards. (You know those without a telephone number or an address. Take your credit card and you hope you get the merchandise and don't have to contact the credit card company to contest a charge.)
Anybody have a suggestion? Yes, I know if their machines were AGP I could use the Radeon VE 32 MB DDR Dual Display video cards at under $100. I have one on my own machine as it was the cheapest I could find when I put it together. The digital monitor support is NOT available in the PCI version though.
There seem to be few reasonably priced PCI video cards with support for digital output. The card that would have been ideal seems to be out of production: ATI Xpert LCD PCI, 8 MB. The college's purchasing department hasn't determined yet whether any of the 3 relatively obscure Internet sites that claim to have them are ones they'll deal with or if they really have 3 cards. (You know those without a telephone number or an address. Take your credit card and you hope you get the merchandise and don't have to contact the credit card company to contest a charge.)
Anybody have a suggestion? Yes, I know if their machines were AGP I could use the Radeon VE 32 MB DDR Dual Display video cards at under $100. I have one on my own machine as it was the cheapest I could find when I put it together. The digital monitor support is NOT available in the PCI version though.