ATI 8500 + Dell 2005FPW, yes/no?

[JoPalm]

Planning to get the dell 2005FPW 20" wide display. Will my ATI Radeon 8500 work with it?

Thanks.

 

[SynthDude2001]

As long as you're not planning to game anywhere near the native resolution, it should work just fine. You may have to enable Reduced Blanking Interval (or "Reduce DVI Frequency", as I remember it being called in the ATI drivers), but you should be able to connect it via DVI.

 

[ponyo]

I'm using Radeon 9100 which is basically 8500le and it works perfectly with DVI.

 

[JoPalm]

Thanks guys. What's "Reduce DVI Frequency"?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: JoPalm
Thanks guys. What's "Reduce DVI Frequency"?

I'm not familiar with all the technical aspects behind it, but from what I understand, basically it reduces the so-called "blanking interval" part of the signal, so more actual pixels can be sent in the same signal bandwidth. Usually this is only needed for high resolutions like 1920x1200 over single-link DVI, but sometimes sub-par DVI transmitters have problems at resolutions that take up all/most of the 165MHz bandwidth (like 1600x1200 maybe), so reduced blanking interval would also help in those cases.

 

[r6ashih]

my 8500 and dell lcd works fine together