Which nVidia 4xx card will do 3 monitors without SLI?

[picnic]

Stupidly bought a 460 as I thought it would drive 3 monitors, but it turns out it'll only do 2 without SLI'ing it.

Will any of the 4xx series do a 3 monitor setup directly, 2 @ 1600x1200 and 1 @ 1920x1200?

TIA
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[Rroff]

Nope all current nVidia GeForce cards can only drive 2 monitors and for nVidia surround you need a pair of cards in SLI.

If your not interested in hardware 3D spanning (nVidia surround) then adding another cheap GPU will let you extend the desktop over 3 monitors.

 

[HW91]

Nope all current nVidia GeForce cards can only drive 2 monitors and for nVidia surround you need a pair of cards in SLI.

If your not interested in hardware 3D spanning (nVidia surround) then adding another cheap GPU will let you extend the desktop over 3 monitors.

I don't think games will work over the three monitors though if you do that

 

[Rroff]

As I said it will only let you extend the desktop, incase of confusion I was referring to nVidia surround (accelerated 3D) when I said hardware 3D not 3D Vision surround.

 

[picnic]

Darn it, think the advertising is a bit misleading because they don't make the SLI requirement clear The machine may get used for a little FSX but it'd be in Windowed mode so I suspect I can get away with any old half decent 2nd card.

Ta

 

[Phoenixdancer]

wont work tho

Why didnt you just buy a ATI card :???

 

[picnic]

wont work tho

Why not?

Why didnt you just buy a ATI card :???

2 reasons, I don't have any display ports and you can't run SETI on ATI.

 

[unknownsock]

2 reasons, I don't have any display ports and you can't run SETI on ATI.

Fair point on the SETI, but just for reference you can get very cheap VGA adapters for use with a DP port.

 

[kylew]

Fair point on the SETI, but just for reference you can get very cheap VGA adapters for use with a DP port.

As well as a DP>DVI for £20 odd.

 

[snaggster]

Zotac are going to make a gtx460 that can do up to 4 monitors. without the need for sli.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/industry/2010/09/23/zotac-announces-the-first-quadruple-display/1

 

[lay-z-boy]

Zotac are going to make a gtx460 that can do up to 4 monitors. without the need for sli.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/industry/2010/09/23/zotac-announces-the-first-quadruple-display/1

You dont need sli to drive more than 2 screens. For surround you need sli but for independent display you can chuck any gpu supported in the nvidia drivers into the mix for extra screens.

 

[Phoenixdancer]

You said you would use a normal card and a crappy vga card for third?

Well if you try and play a game spanning these monitors it wont work, in window mode it will just fail.

Also that link...
ZOTAC announces the first Quadruple-display capable graphics card of the world

ATI have a Quad display card out ages ago... and also ati have 6 monitor cards....

 

[picnic]

You said you would use a normal card and a crappy vga card for third?

Well if you try and play a game spanning these monitors it wont work, in window mode it will just fail.

Well assuming I would be sensible enough to have a card able to handle FSX then why could I not put one window on each monitor? I appreciate having one large window spanning the output of 2 cards might fail but if each screen has it's own window that should be ok shouldn't it?

 

[Phoenixdancer]

running 3 games??

 

[HW91]

^ you can set FSX up to run a view on each monitor if they are individual and not eyefinity

 

[Wilderbeast]

You said you would use a normal card and a crappy vga card for third?

Well if you try and play a game spanning these monitors it wont work, in window mode it will just fail.

Nope, you can span accross all three with a windowed mode game. I do it all the time.

 

[picnic]

Excellent news Wilderbeast, think non-SLI'd 2nd GFX card is the solution. Thanks peeps.