Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!lanl!jxdl
From: jxdl@lanl.gov (Jerry DeLapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EGA, Monitor, Question
Summary: Watch out!
Keywords: EGA Color Monitor IBM PC multisync
Message-ID: <6431@lanl.gov>
Date: 21 Nov 88 17:50:24 GMT
References: <799@starfish.Convergent.COM> <324@wuibc.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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> In article <799@starfish.Convergent.COM> jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes:
> >I am considering buying my first Color Monitor.  I will probably buy an
> >Everex MicroEnhancer I (600 x 480) card and a Samsung EGA monitor
> >(roughly the same number of pixels as the card).  
> >
> >Now the question.  At one store here, the Micro Enhancer II card is only
> >$20 more ($129 vs. $149).  Is there any advantage in buying an EGA card
> >which is more dense (800x600) than the Monitor I plan to buy?  I expect
> >to use this monitor for several years ... 

The main thing to watch out for is to NEVER NEVER use the higher
resolution modes of the card with your standard monitor. You'll fry
your monitor if you try. Thus, the answer to your question is "No,
not unless you plan a monitor upgrade in the near future"

The only other thing would be to check on whether the ME-II card has
other goodies (such as automatic detection of graphic modes (EGA vs.
CGA vs. MDA) along with automatic switching) that the ME-I doesn't/

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