[Paul666]

Hi,

Drowning in detail here, what I am after is a quiet ATI card to drive 2 24” monitors (1920x1200 & no HDMI) which maybe also able to do 2 30” mons in 3-5 years (well u can dream). I am not a serious gamer.

Unfortunately I got a MSI HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Card (ebuyer 150349) because in the extended spec it said 2*2 dual-link dvi, so that’s got it all covered. However when it turned up it has a DVI and a HDMI.

At the moment I don’t have access to a 1920*1200 monitor so cannot test any of this and anyway u should not use something that you are looking at returning.

Now I thought HDMI only did 1920*1080 so am I screwed?

As an aside somewhere on the ATI site I saw the 4670 can only do dual link on the primary display and only single link on the secondary display, is this correct?

On the MSI box it talks about ‘MSI Exclusive Mazarine DVI’ which is where via a dvi->hdmi adapter you can have resolutions up to 1920*1200 or higher???

I’ve been looking all over and am now just fine detailed out.

Will I be able to drive 2 1920*1200 mons using this card, presumably with a HDMI-DVI adapter?

If so could I do the same with a 4350/4550 with the same output interfaces on it?

Is there such a thing as a HDMI-DVI adapter?

Any thoughts would really be appreciated.

Thanx
Paul

[EndlessWaves]

HDMI does 1920x1200@32@60Hz fine (I'm using a 4850 myself for that right now in fact). HDMI is really just single-link DVI-D with audio and control channel added for TVs and similar so anything single link DVI-D can do, HDMI can do as well. And as they're the same signals adapters just change the plug so they're cheap and plentiful - HDMI to DVI cables are availible as well.

I believe you will need proper dual-link DVI ports to drive two 30" monitors though, HDMI does come in a dual-link varient but I've been told that it needs the bigger HDMI connector and not the common one.

The 4350 page also states it can do 1920x1200 on the secondary and 2560 on the primary via DVI: ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 Graphics - GPU Specifications

EDIT: Nvidia have a list of their GPUs that support Dual Dual-link DVI: http://www.nvidia.com/object/extreme_hd_gpu.html