Radeon Mac edition DVI question

[Unknown_K]

I have a Mac edition Radeon 7000 PCI in my B&W G3. Currently I am using an old VGA equipped LCD since my 420GS 19" Sony monitor went on the fritz. Anyway I ordered a Samsung 19" 4:3 LCD that does 1280x1024. I want to use the DVI port on my B&W G3 and I read somewhere the DVI port on the 7000 only does 1024x768? Anybody run one at 1280x1024 using DVI?

 

[Osgeld]

I would think that the limiting factor would be ram, and the 7k has enough

but with the flipidy flip flop that is "the entire video transport industry" maybe old dvi tops out, there was / are 3 dvi standards out there course the newest, which would be on your monitor is dvi-d which handles 1080p and probably more

honestly I cant tell a difference tween the old analog vga and digital systems till past 1280x1024, which is where my monitor is sitting on analog nice n clear, vs my wifes 1600x1060 (or whatever) is quite fuzzy over analog

 

[Unknown_K]

Currently using an old BENQ FP731 17" LCD at 1280x1024 analog and it looks just fine. I have a 4 port KVM connected to 4 PCs here using analog and the monitor I purchased has VGA and DVI so I could the G3 on the 2nd input. My old Sony CRT had 2 seperate VGA inputs so it made using 4 PCS and 1 Mac easy.

Hopefully the new monitor shows up by Friday. If you run non native rez on a LCD using the DVI port will it look the same as using VGA doing the same thing or will it just show bigger borders?

 

[Unknown_K]

It does work fine at 1280x1024@60.

Not sure I can tell much of a difference in digital vs analog at that resolution.

 

[Osgeld]

if you could I would call BS, it seems fine until you start hitting the upper ends of HD, and only really noticable on text, graphics not so much (and if your monitor has a sharpness ajustment on it they usually have them set WAY too sharp which barfs up text also, my old mitsubushi 21 inch i use was like that)

and sorry I missed your previous question but as your probably well aware of now, lower resolutions and how a screen reacts is a product of the screen after the whole cable thing

 

[Unknown_K]

The whole point of the thread was will a Radeon mac edition 7000 do 1280x1024 in digital, specs topped out at 1024x768 in the lit but there were references to new ROMs to fix it.

I don't like widescreen monitors for computer use, the LCD I purchased is a Samsung 943BT 4:3 19". You can get widescreens cheaper but I don't like them. This unit does 90deg tilt too which is nice for doing web reading (text articles, less scrolling).

I picked 1280x1024 native rez because I have 4 machines plus my B&W g3 that I use for old games which use that rez well.

For video I have a 32" HDTV behing me.

I must say the newer monitors with 50000:1 (1000:1) contrast do a decent job on blacks, unlike my old 17" LCD.