Re:On the subject of monitors (Score 2)

The 1600SW on it's own isn't very compatible - there's the 2 cards a previous poster mentioned (N9 RevIV - now dead so hard to find; 3DLabs - no personal experience). This is all 'cos of the connector on the end of the 1600SW's cable ...

If you want compatibility, go for the multi-link adapter (MLA) - then the range of cards available goes up ... ignore the SGI superwide-savy page, it's useless and out-of-date. And the MLA lets you enjoy fullscreen gameing, irrespective of the resolution used - it just scales the image accordingly (I don't even notice that Q3A looks a little stretched anymore ;-)

Browse - comp.sys.sgi.hardware plenty of user experience in there.

Briefly, the following seem to work best (assuming you want DVI output - if not, pretty much anything will do) ....
Asus v7100DVI (GeForce2MX)
Herc ProphetII Ultra DVI (GeForce2 Ultra)
Herc ProphetIII DVI (GeForce3 Ultra)
Matrox G400 DVI
Matrox G450 VGA
ATI Radeon AIW DVI
And prolly others I've forgotten .....

Pretty much all of these work in any flavour of windows. XFree support is available, but you'll need to work on the config file to get the timings right (ask on the newsgroup, someone will help you out).

Key thing is 1600x1024 resolution support in the drivers; and the bandwidth of the TDMS for DVI output (look for an external SIL164 on NVidia parts - otherwise forget it).

Cheers, Carl.