Just setup my Dell 3007WFP - Initial Impression

[clubsport]

Hi,

I like to upgrade my card but I am confused which card to get to support
the Dell3007WFP?
I am looking at the 7800GTX or wait for the new cards the
7900gtx or x1900xtx cards plus do I need two cards to run the Dell3007
Monitor?

[James]

Hi,

I like to upgrade my card but I am confused which card to get to support
the Dell3007WFP?
I am looking at the 7800GTX or wait for the new cards the
7900gtx or x1900xtx cards plus do I need two cards to run the Dell3007
Monitor?

Whatever card you decide on, just make sure it has one thing:

Dual-Link DVI Support

That's what is required to support the Dell 3007.

[clubsport]

Your saying that I can use One of those cards to support the Dell3007 not
two?

[Gar]

Your saying that I can use One of those cards to support the Dell3007 not
two?

Yes, you only need 1 card with Dual Link DVI.

[stripe7]

You only need 1 card to support it. Question is what you want to do with it. If you are playing games the require heavy fps you may find the framerate too low for you. I currently get 45-60 fps on some games with 2 fx7800-512's at 2560x1600.

[clubsport]

I would be playing games and I do not overclock and I wish to have the
resolution at least 1600x1200+ with 1 card if possible?

[James]

Ideally you want to run the display at it's native resolution (2560 x 1600). If you can't do that, try and go for half; 1280 x 800. In order to drive the display at it's native resolution you need some pretty hefty horsepower, as Gar said.

A single graphics card will run the display just fine. But if you want high framerates at the native resolution, you will probably want to look into a multi-card setup (Either SLI with nVidia or Crossfire with ATI).

[houkouonchi]

for anyone who wants to know if their video card can do dual link, I would recommend downloading a linux boot disk with nvidia drivers like pclinuxos livecd with nvidia. after you login as username root, password root, with a different LCD hooked up through the DVI-D do cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log and look for the info, I did this to check if my geforce go 7800 GTX on my laptop was dual link or not for when I get this display when it comes down to <$1500

Ok, so here is my loigc. I started thinking on a way to figure out if the xps gen 2 has a dual link DVI ( I am sure the 9300's are the same). Then remembered that in linux the xorg log will say if its dual link capable/etc and what the max clock is I took a quick look at my mythbox which is hooked up to a DLP HDTV and saw this:

(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce FX 5900XT
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.35.20.38.65
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using ConnectedMonitor string "DFP-0"
(--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0: maximum pixel clock: 165 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0: External Dual Link TMDS

Ok, it says dual link but its external, that seemed weird, also the maxmimum pixel clock was only 165 MHz which is single link.

So i restarted xorg on my laptop with the LCD outputting instead of an external CRT and looked at the log file, and here is what was listed:

(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: G70
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.70.02.19.12
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 262144 kBytes
(II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): CRT-0, DFP-0
(--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0: maximum pixel clock: 284 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0: Internal Dual Link LVDS

Hey, its over 165 MHz, great, it says internal dual link, looks good, however that is for LVDS which the flat panel uses.

I decided to hook my laptop up to my DLP HDTV and look at the log file again when its going through DVI which is doing TMDS and I get:

(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: G70
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.70.02.19.12
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 262144 kBytes
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using ConnectedMonitor string "DFP-1"
(--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-1: maximum pixel clock: 330 MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-1: Internal Dual Link TMDS

Alright! 330 MHz, exacly what it should be with dual link. and it says internal dual link TMDS. This makes me think for sure that it has a dual link connection. Since the other one said external I am guessing its because the cable was dual link but the card itself couldnt do it.

[houkouonchi]

also to clear up a little confusion, I know all 7800's are supposed to have dual link (doesnt mean they are) and I have seen some chips as low as a fx 5200 PCI with dual link, it just depends on the manufacturor, you definitely dont need a good video card to run this, its just hard to find a crappy one with dual link DVI.

[stripe7]

Installed 84.12 nVidia drivers. Worked with the 3007WFP without any tweaks and has support for all the intermediate screen resolutions.

[xgman]

Installed 84.12 nVidia drivers. Worked with the 3007WFP without any tweaks and has support for all the intermediate screen resolutions.

great news.

[octman]

After about two weeks of going back and forth with XFX customer support
they now indicate that ALL 7800 card have dual link dvi, it is just not ENABLED
for some of them! They said that the 7800GT (PV-T70G-UDE7) does not have
dual link enabled but that it will with a new BIOS update. Of course, there is no
date for a date when said BIOS will become available. Of course, that is the card
that I have.

Anybody heard anything similar or can verify what XFX is saying?

[tallshooter]

I am thinking about buying the dell 30" but I am having second thoughts... I play call lof duty 2 alot.. How did you get the high setting in the option field in Call... I didnt think it went that high.... Can you provide me any more infomationon the dell 30"... I am currently running a viewsonic 20"... Do I need it No, but bigger is better !.. I just want to be sure the money is worth it!..
Thanks Bryan Lumley