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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / July 200530" PC
Hi Guys, I have a IMac G5, and a PC. On my PC I have a 23" LCD Apple monitor. I would love a 30" monitor on my PC. I have approached 2 Apple suppliers who said they would get back to me but never did! Is it possible to run a 30" off my PC, and what video card would I need. My MOBO only supports 8X AGP, not PCI express. Regards On Apple's Website it says: Requires ATI Radeon 9650, Radeon X850 XT or NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL Card I supposed it would work on the same card on PCs.. > Hi Guys, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Regards Thanks Mate. I have determined that the 6800 GT DDL will only work on a G5 Mac. But I can nothing about whether the other two cards will work on a PC and drive an Apple 30". I would love to have a G5, but I have many programmes that only work on a PC. But I simply love my iMac. > On Apple's Website it says: > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >> Regards > Thanks Mate. I have determined that the 6800 GT DDL will only work on a G5 > Mac. But I can nothing about whether the other two cards will work on a PC > and drive an Apple 30". Mac cards are unlikely to work on a PC, as their bios has powerpc code on it not x86 code. Video card bios contains some code that will run on the computers CPU. So you need to investigate dual link cards for the PC. > I would love to have a G5, but I have many programmes that only work on a > PC. But I simply love my iMac. You'll need a video card for the PC that supports dual link, I'm not sure which do but it can't be many, and is not the PC 9650 and X850. >>On Apple's Website it says: >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>> >>>Regards Hi Old Bloke, This might be helpful: The Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display runs at a native resolution of 2560x1600. This resolution is higher than most graphic cards are able to support. In order to drive the ultra high resolution of the Apple 30-inch Cinema Display HD, a graphics card needs to be dual-link DVI. A graphics card which features a dual-link DVI port combines two TMDS transmitters to drive higher digital resolutions than a single TMDS transmitter is capable of. This is different from a card which provides dual DVI connectors. Most graphic cards provide a single link DVI connector(s). On the Macintosh platform, only two Apple graphic cards are capable of driving the native resolution of the Apple 30-inch Cinema Display HD. They are the Geforce 6800GT DDL and the Geforce 6800Ultra DDL: http://www.apple.com/displays/digital.html For the PC Windows platform, only select NVIDIA QuadroFX® workstation graphic cards provide dual link DVI support. These are the NVIDIA QuadroFX 2000, 3000, 3400, 4000 and 4400. More information on the NVIDIA QuadroFX family is available from the following URL: NVIDIA QuadroFX (http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx_family.html) Please note that the Apple 30-inch Cinema Display HD will not operate in DOS mode on the PC. The 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 200 supports it too (http://www.synapps.de/synapps/bin/view/Main/CinemaDisplayWindows). Cheers > Thanks Mate. I have determined that the 6800 GT DDL will only work on a G5 > Mac. But I can nothing about whether the other two cards will work on a PC > and drive an Apple 30". > > I would love to have a G5, but I have many programmes that only work on a > PC. But I simply love my iMac. > Hi Old Bloke, > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > The 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 200 supports it too > (http://www.synapps.de/synapps/bin/view/Main/CinemaDisplayWindows). Thanks Mate. I will study these cards. Re the DOS mode, my 23" won't display the POST (power on, startup BIOS) information >>Hi Old Bloke, >> [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Thanks Mate. I will study these cards. Re the DOS mode, my 23" won't > display the POST (power on, startup BIOS) information Don't faint when you see the price. I think TOB actually has got some $$. I have been drooling over a G5 sometime now... LOL > Don't faint when you see the price. Hi Old Bloke, This might be helpful: The Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display runs at a native resolution of 2560x1600. This resolution is higher than most graphic cards are able to support. In order to drive the ultra high resolution of the Apple 30-inch Cinema Display HD, a graphics card needs to be dual-link DVI. A graphics card which features a dual-link DVI port combines two TMDS transmitters to drive higher digital resolutions than a single TMDS transmitter is capable of. This is different from a card which provides dual DVI connectors. Most graphic cards provide a single link DVI connector(s). On the Macintosh platform, only two Apple graphic cards are capable of driving the native resolution of the Apple 30-inch Cinema Display HD. They are the Geforce 6800GT DDL and the Geforce 6800Ultra DDL: http://www.apple.com/displays/digital.html For the PC Windows platform, only select NVIDIA QuadroFX® workstation graphic cards provide dual link DVI support. These are the NVIDIA QuadroFX 2000, 3000, 3400, 4000 and 4400. More information on the NVIDIA QuadroFX family is available from the following URL: NVIDIA QuadroFX (http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx_family.html) Please note that the Apple 30-inch Cinema Display HD will not operate in DOS mode on the PC. The 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 200 supports it too (http://www.synapps.de/synapps/bin/view/Main/CinemaDisplayWindows). Cheers I don't think it can be done at the moment. None of the PC video cards I scanned were dual dvi 2560x1600. Cheers andrew On 25/7/05 4:42 AM, in article 42e3e11e$1@news.comindico.com.au, > Hi Old Bloke, > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Cheers |
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