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Careful of the G550 and DVI

Careful of the G550 and DVI

Posted Dec 5, 2007 8:48 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Video cards by DG
Parent article: The first ATI r5xx/6xx X11 driver release

G550 is a solid piece of kit, and a modern version has a nice small IC, and is very power
efficient.  However, it cannot reliably drive 1600x1200 over DVI.  If your monitor has this
resolution, or larger, and is a digital device like an LCD, then yuou should look elsewhere if
you care about image quality.


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Careful of the G550 and DVI

Posted Dec 5, 2007 8:49 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

That is.. if you have this resolution or larger you'll be using VGA, and decoding in your
monitor back to pixels, resulting in a slightly offset (and degraded) image, most of the time.

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