iMac 24" with 256 NVIDIA

[joshwest]

im sure this has been answered but, can a iMac 24" with 256 NVIDIA Graphics Card support the 30" Display?

[Mundy]

im sure this has been answered but, can a iMac 24" with 256 NVIDIA Graphics Card support the 30" Display?

No.

1920x1200 is the maximum resolution the iMac's Mini-DVI output supports.

[JPT]

It can support it, but not to it's fullest. ;) (I believe)

[KatmanDu]

Ok. I keep hearing this- iMac won't support any screen larger than what's built in- but does that mean that you can't use anything physically bigger than 23", as in, it won't work at all.... or does it mean that you could plug in a 30" screen but could only display a maximum resolution of 1900x1200 (assuming you had a 24" iMac)?

[Big-TDI-Guy]

If I understand correctly, it's not the "unable to do more than internal screen bit" As I've run a 24" LCD off my 20" Imac.

Rather - To use any display that has a resolution greater than 1920 x 1200 DPI, you need TWO DVI ports for the bandwidth required. If you can dig up a 30" with 1920 x 1200 pixels or less, you're golden.... But that is unlikely, at best.

So being that most 30" LCDs have 2560 x 1600 native resolution - the single DVI port will not cut it.

I do not know if you could run a 30 LCD at a lower resolution - that may be possible, but would likely look terrible, because when an LCD is not at "native" resolution, they tend to look really fuzzy / blurry. Again, I'm not sure if the 30" REQUIRES both DVIs to operate or not at a lower res. It does reqiure both for native resolution.

[toru173]

Not two DVI ports physically, just one "Dual Link" port. It supports twice the bandwidth (hence twice the resolution) in the same physical form factor - it just has more pins.

[scottlinux]

The sad thing is that I'm sure the video chip is more than capable of handling that display. But there is not a connector on that computer to do it.