Running a 24" LCD at native resolution

[axg20202]

Hi all,

first post here but I've been a lurker for some time and a customer of OCUK since way back.

I've just sprung for a new 24" LCD panel (HP LP2475W) and I have a good but fairly bog-standard graphics card (IIRC it's an OCUK random brand/Happy Shopper Nvidia 6800GT bought earlier this year, no longer stocked). Question is, is the card capable of running my new screen at native resolution (1920 x 1200) via DVI?

I receive the monitor in a few days so I'll probably find out soon enough , but I'd appreciate any thoughts on this.

Cheers.

 

[kylew]

It'll be fine. At my work office, we have quadro fx 540s in out computers, and we've all got 24" screens.

A quardo fx 540 uses a 6 series GPU, the 6600 if I'm not mistaken, so you'll be totally fine.

 

[Raikiri]

Fine for video, desktop stuff etc. but don't expect to run many games with it.

 

[axg20202]

Thanks for replying. I'm not so sure. I've read posts on other fora that the 6800s are somehow crippled and cant produce this resolution via DVI.

 

[kylew]

Ahh, don't worry about that, the computers in my office all run on DVI. You'll be totally fine

6 Series specs taken from the nVidia website:

PureVideo Technology

• Adaptable programmable video processor
• MPEG video encode and decode
• High-definition MPEG-2 hardware acceleration
• High-quality video scaling and filtering
• DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i resolutions
• Dual integrated 400 MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048 × 1536 at 85Hz
• Display gamma correction
• Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window

Advanced Display Functionality

• Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85hz
• Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and external TV encoders
• Full NVIDIA® nView™ multi-display technology capability

 

[Shash]

Should be fine for most things apart from games.

 

[axg20202]

OK, thanks all. I only play the odd game and no brand new games, so I should be OK for now. Another query I have, which might be more appropriate in the Monitor section, is the whole single-link versus dual-link DVI issue. I can't determine whether the LP2475W requires a dual-link or a single-link DVI cable. Anyone know?

 

[Duff-Man]

OK, thanks all. I only play the odd game and no brand new games, so I should be OK for now. Another query I have, which might be more appropriate in the Monitor section, is the whole single-link versus dual-link DVI issue. I can't determine whether the LP2475W requires a dual-link or a single-link DVI cable. Anyone know?

As a 24" screen, single-link DVI will be all it needs. You need dual-link when you take the resolution over 1920*1200, so basically for 30" screens only.

 

[axg20202]

Thanks Duff-Man.

Back to my original question, it seems I am indeed a muppet. Now that I'm on my home PC i've realised that I actually have an 8600GT, which is a different ball game altogether.....

So, to ask again (sorry!), should I be OK running at 1920x1200?

 

[Geckovich]

Definitely, my old man to run an 8500gt at that resolution on his PC

8600GT spec sheet:


NVIDIA® unified architecture with GigaThread™ technology
Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4.0 support
16x full-screen anti-aliasing
True 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting
NVIDIA® Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology
One dual-link DVI outputs support two 2560x1600 resolution displays
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology
HDCP Capable (Optional)
PCI Express® support
OpenGL® 2.0 support
NVIDIA® ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)