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Question about a sound card and GPU

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Neil Waldhauer:
I thought the Xeon had the same built-in graphics as Celeron, Pentium, and core-i series. That's probably the fastest graphics for OS/2. You can try an expensive add-in card, but it will probably be slower, since OS/2 won't use any of the nice features of the "faster" card.

ivan:
Hi Mr. X,

I can't say anything about Intel units (I gave up using them in the 486 days) but I can say the built in graphics of the AMD Ryzen series processors work quite well with what we have ( comfortably gives 1920x1900 16 M colours on a 28 inch monitor).

Sandra Asja Eickel:
Hi Mr. X,

if you use an analog video cable and have a monitor with more than XGA resolution, then it might be wise to invest into an ATI/AMD graphics card. Intel has crippled the RAMDAC in the video portion of their CPUs, so trying full HD gives a bad picture quality.
Digital video outputs are okay (DVI, HDMI or DP), but OS/2 might not like all variants (and only one at a time anyway).

There was only a very limited set of older ATI cards where a two monitor setup (VGA + DVI) was supported under OS/2 by the SNAP driver. Both screens must have the same resolution, the desktop can be either cloned (same content) or (extended side by side); I used it with the maximum (given by DVI) resolution of 1920x1200 pixels and 16.7 million colors.

Greetings,
Sandra-Asja

Mr.X:
I was researching my options to move forward. And found a comfortably priced  ATI Radeon X800 XL 256MB PCI-E https://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Radeon-X800-XL-256MB-PCI-E/284012076685?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649. That supports snap. It comes with a dvi and vga. Will i be able to use a hdmi to dvi with no problems? I use a monitor with only hdmi connections. A 40 inch 4k monitor.
Thanks

ivan:
Not sure about the 4k monitor but a DVId to HDMI cable works without problems - I have 2 computers connected that way to a 4 port HDMI/USB kvm switch all working to a 1920x1200 28inch HDMI monitor.

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