Any 8800GTX users?

* HotRdd:

> Is anyone here using the 8800GTX? If so can you please try to answer a
> couple questions?
>
> 1) Does it support dual monitors?

Yes, like most cards made in the last 8 years or so.

> 2) If I have a monitor that only supporst 1024x800 for example and your set
> the resolution to 8192x8192 can you "pan" around the screen?

No.

Benjamin
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In article <13fnvoa9i8rvb49.TakeThisOut@corp.supernews.com>,
HotRdd <NoSpam.TakeThisOut@YourEmail.com> wrote:
>Is anyone here using the 8800GTX? If so can you please try to answer a
>couple questions?

I don't have one (yet), but the 'Gaming-System' I've ordered, and which
will hopefully be delivered sometime before the weekend, or just after it,
will contain one. Before I made that decision I have, of course,
investigated it a bit.

>1) Does it support dual monitors?

Of course it does. About any videocard made in the last, say, 4 years or
so does.

>2) If I have a monitor that only supporst 1024x800 for example and your set
>the resolution to 8192x8192 can you "pan" around the screen?

AFAIK this isn't standard fare of the NVidia drivers; usually the highest
resolution one can select is what the monitor type you chose allows. Why
exactly would you want to do this?

If an application allows you to edit pictures of 8192x8192 pixels, it will
usually also give you the option of zooming in/out and/or scrolling around
in the partial view. Zoom in until your picture's pixels are 1:1 with the
screen's pixel, and you will have what you want.

If you want a bigger desktop, install something like a Virtual Desktop
manager. Even Microsoft themselves offers a pretty nice 'PowerToy' for
this, which allows you to use, and quickly switch, between 4 desktops.
There are other utilities around which give you a user-definable amount of
desktops, which are tiled together; so if you use one of these and define
10 x 10 desktops, you'll have something like you want. Good lucky managing
that, though.

Regards, Patrick.
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I've tried several desktop programs but they only allow me to put a bunch of
programs on each desktop. Not span a single window across several desktops.
Should that be possible? I need one large desktop that I can open my program
too and then work with it. I don't mind panning around the screen if thats
what happens I just need the actual application window to be huge.




"Patrick Vervoorn" <patrick.vervoorn.RemoveThis@NOSPAM.perihelion.demon.nl> wrote in
message news:37738$46fc06f8$82a1d3bf$15562@news1.tudelft.nl...
> In article <13fnvoa9i8rvb49.RemoveThis@corp.supernews.com>,
> HotRdd <NoSpam.RemoveThis@YourEmail.com> wrote:
>>Is anyone here using the 8800GTX? If so can you please try to answer a
>>couple questions?
>
> I don't have one (yet), but the 'Gaming-System' I've ordered, and which
> will hopefully be delivered sometime before the weekend, or just after it,
> will contain one. Before I made that decision I have, of course,
> investigated it a bit.
>
>>1) Does it support dual monitors?
>
> Of course it does. About any videocard made in the last, say, 4 years or
> so does.
>
>>2) If I have a monitor that only supporst 1024x800 for example and your
>>set
>>the resolution to 8192x8192 can you "pan" around the screen?
>
> AFAIK this isn't standard fare of the NVidia drivers; usually the highest
> resolution one can select is what the monitor type you chose allows. Why
> exactly would you want to do this?
>
> If an application allows you to edit pictures of 8192x8192 pixels, it will
> usually also give you the option of zooming in/out and/or scrolling around
> in the partial view. Zoom in until your picture's pixels are 1:1 with the
> screen's pixel, and you will have what you want.
>
> If you want a bigger desktop, install something like a Virtual Desktop
> manager. Even Microsoft themselves offers a pretty nice 'PowerToy' for
> this, which allows you to use, and quickly switch, between 4 desktops.
> There are other utilities around which give you a user-definable amount of
> desktops, which are tiled together; so if you use one of these and define
> 10 x 10 desktops, you'll have something like you want. Good lucky managing
> that, though.
>
> Regards, Patrick.
 >> Stay informed about: Any 8800GTX users? 

Also I'm not sure why you can't set the resolution to 8000x8000 if you only
have a 1024 res monitor. My current Radeon X550 will allow me to set the
resolution to 2048x1536 with monitors that only support 1024x768, I then pan
around the application. Have you tried this?




"Patrick Vervoorn" <patrick.vervoorn.RemoveThis@NOSPAM.perihelion.demon.nl> wrote in
message news:37738$46fc06f8$82a1d3bf$15562@news1.tudelft.nl...
> In article <13fnvoa9i8rvb49.RemoveThis@corp.supernews.com>,
> HotRdd <NoSpam.RemoveThis@YourEmail.com> wrote:
>>Is anyone here using the 8800GTX? If so can you please try to answer a
>>couple questions?
>
> I don't have one (yet), but the 'Gaming-System' I've ordered, and which
> will hopefully be delivered sometime before the weekend, or just after it,
> will contain one. Before I made that decision I have, of course,
> investigated it a bit.
>
>>1) Does it support dual monitors?
>
> Of course it does. About any videocard made in the last, say, 4 years or
> so does.
>
>>2) If I have a monitor that only supporst 1024x800 for example and your
>>set
>>the resolution to 8192x8192 can you "pan" around the screen?
>
> AFAIK this isn't standard fare of the NVidia drivers; usually the highest
> resolution one can select is what the monitor type you chose allows. Why
> exactly would you want to do this?
>
> If an application allows you to edit pictures of 8192x8192 pixels, it will
> usually also give you the option of zooming in/out and/or scrolling around
> in the partial view. Zoom in until your picture's pixels are 1:1 with the
> screen's pixel, and you will have what you want.
>
> If you want a bigger desktop, install something like a Virtual Desktop
> manager. Even Microsoft themselves offers a pretty nice 'PowerToy' for
> this, which allows you to use, and quickly switch, between 4 desktops.
> There are other utilities around which give you a user-definable amount of
> desktops, which are tiled together; so if you use one of these and define
> 10 x 10 desktops, you'll have something like you want. Good lucky managing
> that, though.
>
> Regards, Patrick.
 >> Stay informed about: Any 8800GTX users? 

In article <13fo4faniiitnee.DeleteThis@corp.supernews.com>, NoSpam.DeleteThis@YourEmail.com
says...
> I've tried several desktop programs but they only allow me to put a bunch of
> programs on each desktop. Not span a single window across several desktops.
> Should that be possible? I need one large desktop that I can open my program
> too and then work with it. I don't mind panning around the screen if thats
> what happens I just need the actual application window to be huge.
>

It sounds like your looking for something like this:

http://www.9xmedia.com/products/displays/index.php

T'aint cheap but it will probably do what you want.

Bill
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:47:47 -0700, Bill
<spamtrap.TakeThisOut@tinlc.lumbercartel.com> wrote:

> It sounds like your looking for something like this:
>
> http://www.9xmedia.com/products/displays/index.php
>
> T'aint cheap but it will probably do what you want.

LOL, does that 30 screen one show the universe in a 1:1 scale?
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HotRdd wrote:
> Is anyone here using the 8800GTX? If so can you please try to answer a
> couple questions?
>
> 1) Does it support dual monitors?

Yes, but if you have two cards you can only use one monitor when it is
in SLI (otherwise, 4 monitors - 2 on each card).
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What is the SLI? is the resolution of this card really 8192x8192


"Makhno" <root RemoveThis @127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> HotRdd wrote:
>> Is anyone here using the 8800GTX? If so can you please try to answer a
>> couple questions?
>>
>> 1) Does it support dual monitors?
>
> Yes, but if you have two cards you can only use one monitor when it is in
> SLI (otherwise, 4 monitors - 2 on each card).
 >> Stay informed about: Any 8800GTX users? 

In article <13fpr4v2uim340 RemoveThis @corp.supernews.com>,
HotRdd <NoSpam RemoveThis @YourEmail.com> wrote:
>"Makhno" <root RemoveThis @127.0.0.1> wrote in message
>news:sLOdneaHZqUxq2HbnZ2dnUVZ8sSrnZ2d@bt.com...
>> HotRdd wrote:
>>> Is anyone here using the 8800GTX? If so can you please try to answer a
>>> couple questions?
>>>
>>> 1) Does it support dual monitors?
>>
>> Yes, but if you have two cards you can only use one monitor when it is in
>> SLI (otherwise, 4 monitors - 2 on each card).
>
>What is the SLI? is the resolution of this card really 8192x8192


[Top-posting fixed]

Some remarks:

1. Stop the top-posting please!

2. Google for 'nvidia SLI' to get an idea. One of first few (sponsored)
links Google barfed up already points to a page made by NVidia. Google is
your friend. Learn to use it.

3. Why the final question, could you rephrase it perhaps?

Regards,

Patrick.
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"HotRdd" <NoSpam.TakeThisOut@YourEmail.com> wrote in message
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> What is the SLI? is the resolution of this card really 8192x8192
>
Scaled Link Interface.......... Two cards connected together acting as one.
I have two 8800GTX cards in this arrangement and if I deactivate SLI they
will work as individual cards and support two monitors each. That resolution
is not supported by these cards, or any others in production for the general
public that I know of. I have no idea where you got those numbers for the
8800s.

Ed
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