Dual head AGP video card recommendations

[Polashek, Matthew]

Is that preferable to a dual head card?  I have a matrox AGP card and a
Matrox PCI card.  Maybe it would be best to install them both as opposed to
a single dual head card?  Will that slow down my PCI bus significantly?

Matthew


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> From: 	Ben Steeves
> Reply To: 	For users of Fedora Core releases
> Sent: 	Friday, April 23, 2004 2:50 PM
> To: 	For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: 	Re: Dual head AGP video card recommendations
> 
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:38, Polashek, Matthew wrote:
> > I am looking into getting going with a dual head video set up.  Anyone
> have
> > any recommendations that include the phrase "really easy to set up and
> use?"
> 
> Matrox dualhead cards are very easy to set up and have good 2D
> performance, but little or no 3D performance.  NVidia dualhead cards are
> moderately easy to configure, have excellent 2D and 3D performance, but
> are a bear to get working initially because of kernel compilation issues
> and 3rd party binary-only driver nightmares.  I don't have any opinions
> on ATI cards with dualhead, but the easiest dualhead system I ever set
> up was one with two ATI cards, one PCI and one AGP. 
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