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The world of the inexpensive and powerful dual display video card is here. The ability to make use of two monitors has been available for some time now, but has been generally difficult to setup and maintain. The need for this type of technology in a useable form for the general public has been growing quickly. The ATI Radeon VE is one of the answers to this problem.
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The convenience of working on a large desktop spread of over two inexpensive monitors, cannot be underestimated. Whether you are a system administrator, multi-tasking between telnet sessions, research, and troubleshooting other projects, or a web designer/graphics artist working on multiple images, ftp and and e-mail, these products are indispensable. The ATI Radeon VE is a prime example of this move to inexpensive solutions for work place productivity.
Specs
- HydraVision Multiple Monitor Management Software gives you flexible multi-display support to enable many combinations of VGA, DVI and TV
- DVD playback with integrated motion compensation and iDCT
- Analog video output support for both composite and S-Video
- HYPER Z technology
- PIXEL TAPESTRY architecture
- VIDEO IMMERSION technology
- Twin Cache Architecture
- True Color Rendering
- Triangle Setup Engine
- Texture Cache
- Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
- Mip-Mapping
- Z-buffering and Double-buffering
- Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
- Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
- Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA)
About 3 months ago I switched our production team from old school dual monitor systems (2 video cards, one VGA, one PCI), to one of the new dual monitor supported video cards. We havent looked back since
Administration and troubleshooting these machines has dropped dramatically and the software that is bundled with these cards allows more flexibility with the desktop environment. Performance has increased productivity across the board. An excellent investment at a very low cost. One of those few win-win situations.
ATI is one of the companies that are offering a dual monitor supported card in its Radeon VE. This card offers dual monitor support and a myriad of software tools that allow DVD playback, specifying separate resolutions per monitor, changing the placement of monitors, memory for where a program window opens, multiple desktops, etc, etc, etc at a relatively low cost.
I would like to be clear on the actual use of this card. It is not a gaming card (as you will see with the benchmarks). It can be used as such, but certainly not at the same level as most if the high end video gaming cards out there. This is a card that is specifically designed for dual monitor support in a 2D environment and nothing else. If you are set on having dual monitors and want serious gaming performance then you will have go back to the old school setup that I mentioned earlier or to a more expensive. Now on with my impressions.
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What drivers were used?
My Rage Fury in a Cel 450 got a higher 3DMark2001 score (540) and in a P3-733 gets 960!
Very hard time believing these results...
--Alain--
I purchased a G400MAX when it came out and the quality in the desktop shocked me.And since I got two 21" SONY monitors the gap in visual quality has grown.
For office the G450 is a winner.ATI with the Radeon series gives very good 2D quality.The drivers are shaky.
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