24" and 30" cinema displays on same card?

Will either the GT120 or ATI card allow you to connect both a 24" and 30" cinema display on the same graphics card? The 30" cold use the dual link DVI port and the 24" could use the MiniDisplay port; I just don't know if two different resolutions on each port are supported...

You can run both from the same card, and with different resolutions. Of course you won't get full resolution on both displays when mirroring different size displays, but in extended desktop mode they can each run at full resolution..

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