I'm too lazy, find it for me..
- Robo
- DBB Admiral
- Posts: 1217
- Joined: Sat Aug 17, 2002 2:01 am
- Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Contact:
I'm too lazy, find it for me..
I need a decent graphics card, triple monitor support. Preferably nVidia?
Price range isn't an issue.
Price range isn't an issue.
- Krom
- DBB Database Master
- Posts: 16125
- Joined: Sun Nov 29, 1998 3:01 am
- Location: Camping the energy center. BTW, did you know you can have up to 100 characters in this location box?
- Contact:
No such card exists, Nvidia only does dual monitor support on one card. However get yourself a nice 6800 card or whatever with dual monitor support, and a PCI MX card for the third monitor and you are all set, there will be no driver problems if you get two Nvidia cards.
Some of the MX PCI cards even support dual monitors so you could go all the way up to quad monitor support if you wanted.
Some of the MX PCI cards even support dual monitors so you could go all the way up to quad monitor support if you wanted.
- Robo
- DBB Admiral
- Posts: 1217
- Joined: Sat Aug 17, 2002 2:01 am
- Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Contact:
Your sure about that? Surely there are more than that. I have a 4200TI (a few years old ) and even that has dual monitor support.Krom wrote:No such card exists, Nvidia only does dual monitor support on one card.
No cards with a combination of VGA, TV-OUT and DVI all integrated?
Edit: A four-head card would be okay.
Further Edit: How daft am I? Asking for a 3/4 head card...
- suicide eddie
- DBB Ace
- Posts: 381
- Joined: Mon Sep 09, 2002 2:01 am
matrox make triple rgb output cards, http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/parhelia/256mb.cfm
- Mobius
- DBB_Master
- Posts: 7940
- Joined: Sun Jun 03, 2001 2:01 am
- Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
- Contact:
I've used dualhead since early 1999. Because I pushed so hard at work, all 31 developers now also have dually 19" LCDs or 21" CRTs.
I can definitely understand wanting 3 monitors - it would definitely be a big advantage for extreme power-users. (That doesn't include me I might add!) I find a 3200 x 1200 desktop to be quite adequate!
I'd want triplehead for gaming mostly - because dualhead gaming invariably results in a crosshair spilt between monitors - which isn't too helpful.
This technology is still in development. I'm going nVidia SLI very soon - and I expect to have some "issues" with the drivers. I always do....
I can definitely understand wanting 3 monitors - it would definitely be a big advantage for extreme power-users. (That doesn't include me I might add!) I find a 3200 x 1200 desktop to be quite adequate!
I'd want triplehead for gaming mostly - because dualhead gaming invariably results in a crosshair spilt between monitors - which isn't too helpful.
This technology is still in development. I'm going nVidia SLI very soon - and I expect to have some "issues" with the drivers. I always do....
- Robo
- DBB Admiral
- Posts: 1217
- Joined: Sat Aug 17, 2002 2:01 am
- Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Contact:
I have issues with running out of screen space very quickly, and sometimes needing to run multiple full-screen applications simultaneously.
It would help not having to flick through everything constantly.
Like you said as well, it's also cool for gaming.
Edit: Good find Xciter, its featured on my favourite website for component shopping, Ebuyer.co.uk. I have to use my own since I'm in the UK. Can't trust paying in dollars
It would help not having to flick through everything constantly.
Like you said as well, it's also cool for gaming.
Edit: Good find Xciter, its featured on my favourite website for component shopping, Ebuyer.co.uk. I have to use my own since I'm in the UK. Can't trust paying in dollars