Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

CarlHataway

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 30, 2010
7
1
San Antonio, Texas
Hello all, Carl Hataway here and precluding my question I apologize forthwith for posting a thread that more than likely has been posted before! That said, I will very soon become a Windows Refugee! I am buying a Mac Pro mod. Z0LG-0002, 2X 2.4GHz Xeon E5620 8 core Westmere, 16GB mem, 3X 1TB HDD, ATI HD5870 1GB GDDR5. I want to use 2X 27" monitors, however, don't want to pay $950-$1000.00 per display. I am looking at the HP 2710m monitor w/VGA + DVI-D + HDMI (HDCP) also looking at the 27" Viewsonic and Samsung. Your prolific guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
Carl
I have two secrets to success in life;
#1. Don't tell everything you know
#2.
 
Hello all, Carl Hataway here and precluding my question I apologize forthwith for posting a thread that more than likely has been posted before! That said, I will very soon become a Windows Refugee! I am buying a Mac Pro mod. Z0LG-0002, 2X 2.4GHz Xeon E5620 8 core Westmere, 16GB mem, 3X 1TB HDD, ATI HD5870 1GB GDDR5. I want to use 2X 27" monitors, however, don't want to pay $950-$1000.00 per display. I am looking at the HP 2710m monitor w/VGA + DVI-D + HDMI (HDCP) also looking at the 27" Viewsonic and Samsung. Your prolific guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
Carl
I have two secrets to success in life;
#1. Don't tell everything you know
#2.

Any monitor,but for a laptops. lol
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

Don't get the HP 2710m, they're horrible monitors.
 
the 5870 has two mini DisplayPort and a DVI connection. you will need an adapter for displays that don't use those connections.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.