Video Cards

[dloomis]

FG

What did you have in mind?

Lot's of us like to help when we can.

[fabrizio]

FG

Thanks for your info, I really appreciate it. You are right but I do use only LCD for the emissions, space and Rack mount. . Now I have 5 Lcd but my sight is getting worst , and since I am an old man I still want to watch my kids playing....(kidding) . However your point on CRT vs LCD is totally correct.

The only point is that when I try to trade in my 1 yr old CRT I got peanuts ( or nothing ) back: with the LCD I got an average depreciation of not more of 20% 30% each 18 month. So it is a sort of "investment"....

David is right. For some of us is really a pleasure to help/support others : it is like an excellence chain.
I learn from somebody and I think that is my obligation to share my knowledge to others or help them & support. Before someone did it with me.

Well, since I'm not a good programmer I can make available myself for what are my "acceptable" skills. Very low profile this is it.

I am not an expert in BB but this is the beauty of this one.

[JayF]

FYI, I split off the other posts over to this thread as it looked like we got off the Video Cards discussion and into an EFS discussion.

[FibbGann]

Thanks Jay, but you also split off some of the PC related posts I did.

Fibbgann

[chipper338]

Thanks again Fibbgann

Hi, Fibbgann,

Thanks again for your comments. I recently got my memory up to 512MB. Plus I got an extra fan too!

Also, I did to have my video cards separated across the my 7 PCI/ACP slots specifically to avoid any 'hot-spot' building up in the PC. Unfortunately, my PC didn't work until I move my video cards next to each other. So I hope I am not building up hot spot around the video cards.

Fun and games with the PC

chip



Chipper... you might consider 512 ram for your next upgrade. Also make sure your videocards are not creating to much heat. If the are running hot you can always add a $5 fan.

Fibbgann


Last edited by FibbGann on 10-06-2003 at 09:23 PM

[FibbGann]

Chipper your PCI video cards should work in any PCI slot. Why it would'nt; would not make any sense. If you have a fan on them they should be fine though


Fibbgann

[EdKoF]

Originally posted by pj909

Edo,

Here is the change IB had me make to the command line to start TWS. It doesn't change startup performance very much but sure helps during the day. Insert:
-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true
after "C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_01\bin\javaw.exe" and before the -jar command.

It work great!!

I'll post this tip on the Yahoogroup for IB users. Many people will thanks you, as I do

Cheers,

Edo.

[chipper338]

Fibbgann, Your're Right!

Hi Fibbgann,

You're right. Logically speaking my three video cards should fit in any slot.

However, once you dive into the world of high frequency signals going down a bus you enter into the world of electronic field theory.

Sure the signals are simple ones and zeros but what you really have are electronic devices (PCI cards) driving multiple transmission lines (bus) with multiple terminations (video cards and otherwise). In addition, it's not a simple transmission line with drivers at one end and terminations at the other. You have drivers (active PCI cards) and terminations (inactive PCI cards) placed along the entire length of the transmission line (bus) when means you have a myriad of scenarios on the same bus that have to work 100% of the time.

Within this environment you can get all sorts of UNEXPECTED corruption on your simple digital signals. This corruption can appear as added noise on the signal or distortions of the waveform due to mis-matched transmission line effects. If you were to put an oscilloscope probe onto one the bus lines you may find a ghastly waveform.

In simple english, IT'S UGLY!!

When I was trouble shooting my electronic designs in a previous life, I was always amazed at how messy signals could be even in the simplest of PCB layouts. It a great testament to the design integrity of the current motherboards that we have as few of these 'noise' problems as we do.

I was even more amazed at how weird the solutions could be to these noise problems. Solutions such as moving the termination resistor a fraction of an inch, rerouting the PC track in a different way, etc.

This also explains why it took three weeks to figure out and resolve the problem. I didn't expect waveform corruption as one of the problems.

However, thanks to your suggestion about the power supply, I was able to remove one of the two major cause of my problems and then I was able to identify my noisy bus problem.

Thanks to you my PC now works like a champ!

thanks again,

Chip





Chipper your PCI video cards should work in any PCI slot. Why it wouldn't; would not make any sense. If you have a fan on them they should be fine though


Fibbgann

[MR]

A person is asking a LCD question... could anyone here take a look and see if you can help him? Thanks!

http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=23022#post23022

[MR]

Hi,

Could someone do me a BIG favor and try and answer the question below? I answered what I know, but could really use others help answering this better. It is from Europe, so if anyone has specific hardware experience related to that location, this gentleman would be extremely grateful for any/all your insights and experience. Thanks in advance for helping my new friend. (I got his permission to post this here, just deleted a few indirect comments and name.) - marc


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:35 AM

.... The whole idea is that I usually cross check the S&P futures before making any decisions on a Nasdaq futures position. To look on monitor 1 at the S&P 15 minutes and to look at monitor 2 at NQ futures 15 min. without having two different computers....

In upgrading my hardware to a multiple monitor system,
a) does e-signal support dual monitors ?
b) what kind of hardware (board, CPU, graphics card) is absolutely essential for Multiple Monitors?

Perhaps not an every day question, but the hardware dealers over here have not a clue, except that they push for the most expensive systems...

Hopefully you can give me an independent view on the matter.

Kind regards,

PvC
Belgium

[EdKoF]

Yes, eSignal supports dual monitors, in that sense that you can put a chart on each monitor (I do this with the 2 monitors forming one large desktop under Windows XP).

Basically any graphic board with 2 output plugs supports this.

If you want good 2D quality, go for a Matrox 400 (2nd hand), 450 (new) or Parphelia if you have enough money and want 3 monitors.

In stead of having a graphic card with 2 outputs, you can also just plug in any old pci graphic card into your pc. Windows XP will know what to do. Works fine here (I have a matrox 400 AGP card and a matrox 200 pci card for 3 monitors).

It's easy, although I don't know how if it works as smootly under Windows 98 or something like that.

Motherboard doesn't matter. Of cours if you have a large desktop filled with charts, it wouldn't hurt to have a quick cpu and some extra RAM on board.

Edo.

[EdKoF]

By the way, I am from Europe. PC's work about the same here as anywhere else I guess

The 220 volt doesn't matter


Cheers,

Edo.

[FibbGann]

Motherboard could very well matter Edkof... Jeddins if you can tell us exactly what your looking to run and how many monitors? I am sure we can get you squared away. Current PC specs? data connection? How many charts, efs's? The more detailed the better!


Fibbgann

[EdKoF]

Fibgann,

Reading the original question, I see a request for dual monitors. For dual, motherboard specs are not that important.

Edo.

[FibbGann]

Very True!


Fibbgann