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I always thought you could run any ammount of monitors so long as you have the extra gfx cards for it. I mean as long as they are just windows desktops and not intense games they should all work together shouldnt they?
 
Yes you can run more than one card for multi monitor setup, going from memory. Obviously if they are pci based then they won't be up to much beyond desktops, but I was always curious about running a couple of cards seperately in pcie. Don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
 
deadeyedic30 said:
Yes you can run more than one card for multi monitor setup, going from memory. Obviously if they are pci based then they won't be up to much beyond desktops, but I was always curious about running a couple of cards seperately in pcie. Don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
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Had two monitors running this way, for some reasons the 16x lanes were only picked up as 2x?

That was on a Lanparty SLi-DR...
 
FrannoBaz said:
:rolleyes: Nope you cant, Matrox Tripleheads are essential to running 3 monitors im affraid dude
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:/

i run a 7300gt and an 8800gtx, both pci-e obviously. i have no problems running 3 monitors. or 4 monitors even, and a tv output or two at the same time if i so wish.
 
You can add an extra PCI card and it will pick up the extra monitor. I used to do this before AGP was around. I see no reason why it would be any different now. If you have the graphics card, you can just stick it in, windows should pick it up and install the drivers for you. Naturally, it would not be suitable for gaming.
 
james.miller said:
:/

i run a 7300gt and an 8800gtx, both pci-e obviously. i have no problems running 3 monitors. or 4 monitors even, and a tv output or two at the same time if i so wish.
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Both graphics cards have to be running the same driver for Aero on Vista to work (apparently, I haven't verified this yet).

Multiple graphics cards are easy enough...I'd be interested to get a second card installed again since Vista's removal of overlays has made everything easier. I can drag a windowed game between screens not with no framerate hit, although whether this extends to an additional graphics card I haven't found out yet.
 
FrannoBaz said:
:rolleyes: Nope you cant, Matrox Tripleheads are essential to running 3 monitors im affraid dude
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What? Two graphics cards, PCI and AGP, or two PCI-e are perfectly capable of running 3-4 monitors.

If you're running Vista though it's a bit more complicated with using a PCI card. It needs to be Direct x9 and run with the same driver as your main card.
 
iCraig said:
If you're running Vista though it's a bit more complicated with using a PCI card. It needs to be Direct x9 and run with the same driver as your main card.
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I'm running Vista x64, currently using a 7600GT. I was thinking of getting the new 8800GT and then running both cards together to drive three monitors. I guess this won't be possible or is the driver the same? :)
 
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james.miller said:
i run a 7300gt and an 8800gtx, both pci-e obviously. i have no problems running 3 monitors. or 4 monitors even, and a tv output or two at the same time if i so wish.
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I've never used the TV output on my graphics cards, got a range of Nvidia cards. How does the TV out work? Is it a duplication of one of the main outputs or is it another indepedent view?
 
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