On around Mon, 3 Dec 2001 06:40:09 -0800, [log in to unmask] posted this message in news:internal.mailing-list.computers.pc-build . . . > On 28 Nov 2001, at 1:54, Ethan T. Matthews wrote: > > > I run a 19" monitor with a 1600x1200 resolution, 32-bit color and a > > 75Hz refresh rate (I can't use 85Hz because it makes rolling, fuzzy > > black lines for some strange reason). Anyway, there is no way I could > > run that resolution and refresh rate with my old 16 megabyte Creative > > Labs video card. It just wasn't capable. I now use a 64 megabyte > > card which can handle this without breaking a sweat. > > 4x1600x1200 = 4x16x12x100x100 > = 64x12x10000 > = 7680000 > > which is somewhat less than 8 MB. Just curious...why break it down like that? Why not just say 4x1600x1200 = 7,680,000? > I do not doubt that your old video card did not offer support for > this video mode. I just want to point out that the issue was NOT > that at 16 MB it did not have sufficient RAM to support this mode. > The limitation you encountered was in the video coprocessor chip, its > on-board ROM code, or the available drivers, and your new card gets > around that -- in addition to possibly adding more RAM as well. I never had a monitor to actually max out the capabilities of the Banshee. A while back the Banshee was running my housemate's monitor at 1280 x 1024, but only at a 60Hz refresh rate. And now that I remember, the Banshee would indeed display up to about 1920 x 1440 x 32, according to the specs, but only at a 60Hz refresh rate. But the quality seems to degrade as you move into higher resolutions. That was the point I was making. I upgraded his video card to a Pine GeForce 2 MX and now it runs at a higher refresh rate, but at a slightly lower resolution because the monitor doesn't support anything higher than 60Hz at 1280 x 1024. I think he's running 1152 x 952 or something like that. I moved the Banshee to his mother's computer, an old Packard Bell with a Pentium 150 and 80 megs of EDO-RAM, and it does a whole lot better on her 15" monitor running at 1024 x 768. The 1 megabyte video card that's on the motherboard of the Packard Bell's Intel LX motherboard (PB680) was only capable of 256 colors at 1024 x 768. Funny thing is, I used to use the Packard Bell when it only had the 1-meg video, and before that I had a Win 3.1 computer which also was only capable of 256 colors. I thought web images were just grainy by their very nature. I thought GIFs looked better than JPEGs. It wasn't until I upgraded the Packard Bell to a Banshee video card when I saw the images the way they were supposed to look. :-) Ethan PCBUILD's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>