How do I hook two 23" apple displays to a 2.5ghz G5?

[Jo-Kun]

I assumes that they would be put atop the current two, you know, in the exact logical place they should be if the card had 4. Since it takes up 2 slot speces, that does make sence. But I was wrong. Again, I assumed the cable was just for the 20 and the 23, because there has to be a different one for the 30, even though it doesn't use 2 ports it does still need a different kind of port.

ok that sounds logical indeed... but the picture puts the huge fan in that position

+ it would sound Illogical to need two equal ports for one device... that would be sooooo non-mac (except maybe for PC users who like to plug things all over the place...)

 

[Sun Baked]

hmm and did you figure out where they would put the extra two DVI connectors they 'photoshopped' out??

J

I found them.

So those Photoshopped out connectors, were probably a 2nd card the photographer thankfully left out of of the picture.

And yes this is a four port/two card system that probably doesn't use the 3rd/4th ports but uses the GPU off the other card to speed up the first.

It's the SLI/PCI-e version of the 6800.

http://www.nvidia.com/docs/CP/5953/sli_video.swf

 

[Jo-Kun]

as you can see in the swf... they show 2 'shorter' cards in 2 slots... the Mac version is a bigger sized card (longer) than the PC version... but with a 2 slot covering in the front and only in need of one slot...

mac version: http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/572/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/m9593ga_125.jpg

pc version: http://www.nvidia.com/docs/CP/5917/verto-board.jpg

I'm not sure if the PC version has the same resolution as the Mac version since there is allso a thread where you can find that the max resolution of dual dual dvi card (it still sounds awfull... why indeed not dual DVI2 or something else...) schould be less than what the 30" display can perform...

>edit:
>Dual integrated 400 MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to
>and including 2048 × 1536 at 85Hz
>
>more specs on the PC version
>(wich seems just a little less powerfull than the Mac version...)
>http://www.nvidia.com/page/pg_20040406661996.html
>
>end edit

and now I go to bed... its allmost 2u30 am here in belgium ;-)

J