Oh! Gizmo

By Chris Scott Barr

A long while back we showed you some pretty cool USB video cards. While they wouldn’t do anything to make your games run better, they can increase your productivity. I know that when I’m stuck using only a single screen on my laptop I feel almost handicapped. That’s right, these cool adapters could allow you to add up to six extra monitors to your PC (four extra on a Mac).

The issue with the older adapters is that they were limited to resolutions of 1440×900. That’s good enough for a 19-inch screen, but looks terrible on anything larger. Well thankfully these have been updated and let you output full 32-bit color at resolutions of up to 1600×1200.  That should look great on 24-inch monitors. You get your choice of VGA, DMI or HDMI connectors for $99.

[ OtherWorldComputing ] VIA [ GearLog ]

By David Ponce

Back at my place now. Had a massive hard drive failure on the desktop the other day. Perfect excuse to order a new barebones kit, right? Sure, the rest is probably fine… but what fun is being sensible? So, stuff came in the mail today, and here’s the video card: XFX GeForce 8600 GT. I know it’s not the newest, or the best. Just was wondering if any of you guys are using this, and if you have any comments about your personal experience with it.