Triple Monitor

[Shaz]

I've seen this on a few places on here and just wondering how it's actually done and what hardware is required to carry it out.

[Bigchrome]

Triple head to go or similiar and 3 monitors (wow)

[Speederlander]

Triple head to go or similiar and 3 monitors (wow)

Only works for 19" monitors I believe, so not as wow as it seems, especially when most day-to-day will occur on that middle monitor.

[Shaz]

I read a second gfx card, a PCI one, would do the job in supporting another monitor. Or would that be harder than it sounds.

[tiro_uspsss]

just need a second video card mate - dead simple. i have run 2 video cards & 4 monitors before (& will run it again as soon as my main rig is back together... i was even considering a third video card so i could have 6 monitors!)

u can put a second video card in *any* slot! ie: my second video card is a HIS X1300 with a PCI-Express x1 connector/slot design. So this card would fit in any PCI-E slot. Or u can buy a PCI video card as u said

[[XC] Lead Head]

iirc, if your video card has two dual link DVI ports, you could run 4 DVI monitors off those ports.

[IFMU]

tiro is right.
Multiple monitors is dead easy. Windows does most of the job for you.
All you need is,
A: Dual (or more) video card output.
B: Multiple Video cards in the system.
~ISA, AGP, PCI, PCI-E whatever

You plug in the video card, attach each monitor to each video card, start the system. Go into the desktop properties, settings tab, and check the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor, hit apply, then place the numbered monitor to where you want it visualy located in comparison to one another. Hit apply and OK and you are set.
Monitor size, video card(s) brands do not matter.
Although sometimes ATI and nVidias dont play well together in one system. But I have been able to do it before some years back.

[tiro_uspsss]

going on from what IFMU said, I highly recommend UltraMon (an app that makes multi-monitor even more productive). On the note of diff card manufacturers, its rare to have problem with to diff (ATI & Nv) in same system.. just a month ago I put a pc together for a friend & I had a 6600GT & a X1300 playing nicely. Previous to that, that same system had problems running some games because it had 2 x 6600GT *NOT IN SLI* . So if u have an SLI mobo & two of the same cards from Nv, good luck getting it working, but personally i wont hold my breath!

[jspace]

Is dual monitor still not working in SLI? I remember reading a while ago about someone using SLI to drive a Dell 30" and a lower end card to run two 24" on each side.
I wish I had desk space (and the money) to do that:(
I second Ultramon, very nice app.

[Shaz]

I'll probably look for a cheap PCI card to run a middle screen and use a decent card for the outer screens as they'd be bigger. Can anyone link me to a cheap PCI card on a UK site because I've not had much luck.

[Der_KHAN]

well if you wanna play games on three monitors you must have the matrox triple head. it won't work with just two video cards.

just so you know.

[Shaz]

I wouldn't plan to do that. However this Triple Head... care to link me to something in the UK or Europe that would be effective in that.

[Polizei]

Is dual monitor still not working in SLI? I remember reading a while ago about someone using SLI to drive a Dell 30" and a lower end card to run two 24" on each side.
I wish I had desk space (and the money) to do that:(
I second Ultramon, very nice app.

Why do people need so much desktop real estate? I can understand for video/graphic editting, but for day to day web browsing and IM, I dont get it. I have a 19" LCD and even sometimes I have problems filling up all that space. Maybe because my first monitor was a 15" CRT, then a 17" LCD, and now my 19" LCD.

[IFMU]

I personally use dual 19's and wish I had the ability to use 3.
While I understand your point that it might not be directly 'needed' per-say, it is very nice. I use one window for browsing and the other for anything else I may be doing at the same time. Which does vary greatly.
Then there are the times I do need the space for editing pics or documents or something where I need to visually see multiple things at the same time.

Then again, this is Xtreme is it not? Nothing is ever good enough, or 'needed', yet we all do it don't we. ^_^

[Shaz]

I use dual screens and sometimes want more space again. Three or four screens woud be a nice luxury to have and I'd probably keep the TFT I use right now in the middle and get two nice TFTs (probably ones capable of 1920x1200) on the outside for video and graphics.

[ineedaname]

If I'm not mistaken triple head to go is really designed for laptops.

I tried to get dual monitors and sli going on my striker a while back but didn't manage to get it to work. I didn't really have much time to try it out tho.

[Der_KHAN]

If I'm not mistaken triple head to go is really designed for laptops.that was something else. the purpose of the triple thing is to make your video card believe that you don't have 3 monitors, but only one. runnning at a resolution of up to 3840x1024.

http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds/main/review/th2go.htm