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- From: najem@cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad H. Najem)
- Subject: Please recommend 17" Monitor and graphic card.
- Message-ID: <C0I2nD.40G@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:09:13 GMT
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- I need help in selecting a 17" monitor and a graphics card. All
- comments, recommendations, warnings are welcome. Please indicate if I
- can bother you with more questions privately. I plan to collect all
- answers and send them to whoever asks a similar question during the
- next few months.
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- My primary GUI/OS is X11/Linux although I will be using Windows/DOS
- from time to time so the card should be excellent for both. Price,
- though a selection criteria, is not a major one.
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- For monitors I was looking at the Amdek 817 and MAG MX17F. I dropped
- and Amdel after reading the PC World review. What I didn't like about
- the MAG is the 60Hz V. rate at the maximum resolution. Would it be
- justified to lose the 0.26 dot pitch and go to the NEC 5FG (which has
- 0.28) just to get a 74Hz rate that resolution ?
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- As for cards, I'm currently looking at the Actix SG32 and the ATI
- UGPro. X11 performance under Linux is very important.
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- Any comment is appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help,
-
- - Ziad
- najem@cs.uiuc.edu
-