Minidisplayport, Apple Displays & linux/windows Video Card ?

[canthonytucci]

Hello!

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience using a 27" Apple LED Cinema Display under windows and/or linux and what video card one might be using to do that.

I've currently got it hooked up to a macbook pro and it works as it should, but I am looking to resurrect my old(2009) DIY PC box and need to find a suitable graphics card to drive this monitor.

Ive looked around at lots of them on amazon/newegg, but am pretty ignorant when it comes to video cards.

The system it's going into is a 4 Core AMD Phenom II 940, which sadly is using DDR2 Ram (which I can't find for a decent price to save my life! Where did it all go? I can buy almost 2x as much dd3 for the same $!)

Anyway, I'm only going to be using windows to play Diablo 3 (if and when it ever comes out), the rest of the time the machine will run Debian linux, which means that whatever card I get needs to play nicely with both, and this display....am I dreaming or is this something that actually exists? How much do I need to spend to get a decent card these days?

I've already got this guy in there http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127420 and I was hoping that I might be able to get another radeon card and use them both with that fancy "crossfire" at least under windows....but I imagine that would be too cool/convenient to actually be an option.

Maybe someone can point me to a good resource to educate myself on this stuff? I listen to TWICH every week, but I guess not much of it has sunk in.

[IvanIvanovich]

Probably cheapest card with display port that won't completely suck at gaming is hd6770 for around $110. The downside, and a huge one for Apple display, is that they are 100% software setting for brightness, contrast, etc, etc, and the bootcamp drivers don't have all of this settings... bad Apple. Have no idea what it looks like on the linux side, but probably similar issues if guessing. Since you have a mac, I do think it retains the setting in the monitor? if so, set it on the mac and no worry.
I was looking at getting an Apple cinema display to use exclusively on Windows, and not having access to all setting was sort of a deal killer.

[canthonytucci]

I have been trying to get my poker and hhkb to adjust brightness without success. The apple wireless pancake does it fine (of course). Thanks for the info I will do some googling. $110 isn't bad.

[slueth]

isn't diablo 3 going to be ported to macs too?

[canthonytucci]

The "dedicated" graphics card oj the macbook pro is.fine for.watching moves and writing code, but it chokes when it needs to push all those pixels for the 27"   ive messed around with some.older games and found the performance lacking even at low settings.

Plus its an excuse to get some more use out of the old.box....maybe build a new case for it.