Server 2003 and PCI Dual Head Cards

I've spent the last hour or two looking at various video card manufacturer
sites (ATI, Matrox, NVIDIA, etc.) trying to determine if there is a Dual (or
triple or quad) head PCI based card out there that is known to work well on
a machine running Microsoft Server 2003. The information I've found is
confusing.

If anyone has experience in this area, can you share it?

Thanks,

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Dennis Gallagher
Monroe, WA, USA

note: I've intentionally cross posted in several groups that deal with video
cards.

Dennis wrote:
I've spent the last hour or two looking at various video card manufacturer
sites (ATI, Matrox, NVIDIA, etc.) trying to determine if there is a Dual (or
triple or quad) head PCI based card out there that is known to work well on
a machine running Microsoft Server 2003. The information I've found is
confusing.

If anyone has experience in this area, can you share it?

Thanks,

I successfully ran a Win2003 Server Beta some time ago with a Matrox
Parhelia in dual and triple mode. It was okay - certainly a Beta OS at
the time.

"Dennis" wrote in message
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I've spent the last hour or two looking at various video card
manufacturer sites (ATI, Matrox, NVIDIA, etc.) trying to determine
if there is a Dual (or triple or quad) head PCI based card out there
that is known to work well on a machine running Microsoft Server
2003. The information I've found is confusing.

If anyone has experience in this area, can you share it?

Limited experience of the ATi and nVidia based products. However, you'll be
fine with Matrox's stuff. The Parhelia/P650/P750 and Millennium G400/g450
and G550 will all do dual (triple for the Parhelia and P750) head in Windows
XP and Server 2003.
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G450 PCI/AGP dual head card is good with Windows Server 2003. The only trick
is DirectX acceleration options must be enabled first.

Charlie

Well, after the comments returned here, I've purchased a Matrox G450 PCI
card and I'm going to try it. thanks to all of you for your input.

--
Dennis Gallagher
Monroe, WA, USA


"Dennis" wrote in message
...
I've spent the last hour or two looking at various video card manufacturer
sites (ATI, Matrox, NVIDIA, etc.) trying to determine if there is a Dual
(or
triple or quad) head PCI based card out there that is known to work well
on
a machine running Microsoft Server 2003. The information I've found is
confusing.

If anyone has experience in this area, can you share it?

Thanks,

--
Dennis Gallagher
Monroe, WA, USA

note: I've intentionally cross posted in several groups that deal with
video
cards.