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    Dell 24 or 30 with my lattatidue 830???

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by swordfish01, Jan 26, 2008.

  1. swordfish01

    swordfish01 Notebook Consultant

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    In my lattaatude 830 I have a:

    256MB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M Latitude D830 video card

    I dont think it will power the 30 inch correct?

    I cheaped out and bought the 22 inch one and it is not ultrasharp and it is a pain in the ass to view colors and such...

    Do I have to go 24? I use a docking station now to a 24 and a 19
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    not sure what that means...

    I know the 30 needs a dual dvi card....

    The 24 is supposes to be 1920x1200.... i believe that will work fine for the 24...?????
     
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    What he meant to say was if you use the blue vga port to connect to the LCD your max resolution will be 2048*1536. If you use the white dvi port instead then your max resolution will be 1600*1200.
     
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    ahh ok, so I can put the 24 on the main vga port.. and then my 19 on the dvi connnection..

    So the 24 will work fine, but the 30 will need a better video card eh.....right?
     
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    any coupons floating around on this?
     
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    Yes the 24" will work fine, but if you want to use the 30" LCD you need a new computer, not new video card.
     
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    gotcha.. the xps line laptops??? unfortunately they are not dockable.

    I suppose I would just use my desktop for it instead.
     
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    Well the larger XPS, even the inspiron 1520 have a much better gpu in the 8600GT. Dunno about the specs on the mobile card, but my desktop 8600GT has a max resolution of about 2500*1900 thru a dual dvi connection.
     
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    Can i plug the 24 dell into the DVI port? Will it lose resolution?
     
    swordfish01, Jan 28, 2008
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    Well you just won't be able to run it at it's native resolution, which will look blocky and not smooth.
     
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