Cool setup!
For anyone running XP upgrade your ram. Most computer geeks er experts are
now saying 512mb is a minimum. 2GB is highly recommended. With that amount
of ram you can turn off the paging in most cases.
I run a dual Matrox card on my desktop computer at work and have been for
years. I love the setup! I am working on a system for the ham gear.
Are lcd screens quieter than tube monitors?
Mike
W0MU
-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Duane Grotophorst
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:24 PM
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: re: [WriteLog] Writelog and Dual Video
"Wayne King" <wfking@worldnet.att.net> Wrote:
> Can those of you who are using dual video cards with Writelog
> recommend one to me.
> My computer is 500 MHz micro with 128 Meg of ram.
> What dual video card would
> work with this setup. I have an extra 17" monitor not being used.
I have been have pretty good luck running 3 monitors under Windows 2000, 1
card is a ATI Radeon 9000 Pro (AGP), and the second is a Compusa branded ATI
Radeon 7500LE (PCI). The 9000 has two monitor outputs and the 7500 has 1.
What I did find to be somewhat important though is to match the amount of
video RAM across them. My current setup has 64MB per monitor, prior I had a
PCI card with significantly less RAM for the 3rd monitor. It would cause
some "jumpiness" when moving applications between screens 2 and 3. The
current setup is completely smooth. Windows 2000 treats the 3 monitors as a
single 3072X768 display.
I use the 3 monitors to run 4 separate sessions of N4PY's Pegasus control
software and WriteLog, all together on the same PC. The 4 N4PY sessions are
on two of the monitors and WriteLog is on the third. I can run all 4 radios
simultaneously along with Writelog and do not have to minimize anything when
jumping between the 50-432MHz bands during contests.
You may also find that a 500MHz machine may be marginal, I was maxing out
the CPU on a 750MHz/256MB machine so I am now running an AMD XP2600+/256MB,
now I have some CPU headroom once again with everything running.
Duane
N9DG
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