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1950 XTX - dual monitor gaming? 30" dell x 2

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i have a 30" dell and plan to swap out my 7800GT for one of these ATi cards. they apparently have 2xduallink DVI ports so can handle 2 of these monitors.

what i would like though is to game on 2 of these together (span game across both screens). i figure i may need 2 cards to do this properly with newer games but things like CS:S can play full screen absolutely fine with my current card and am hoping this new ATI card can handle the res requirement of 2x30" dells :)

anyone have any thoughts?
 
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2x30" wow. If you've got the money to spend on 2x30" screens im sure you'll have the money for Crossfire X1950XT-X's.

I would say Crossfire some X1950XT-X's that will be gaming bliss that way.

A X1950 Crossfire master card and a X1950XT-X that should be quite enough make sure if you do go this route that you have a crossfire mobo.
 
sunlitsix said:
60" total screen size?!

imo i would buy a projector instead, you can get the same size and run it off the one 7800GT
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why noy just get two 32inch hd lcd tv's that whay it only costs you £1600 and you can run them both from 1 card
 
I agree with the projector comment, get a quality projector and it would be an awesome gaming experience if u want a big screen!
 
Psycho Sonny said:
why noy just get two 32inch hd lcd tv's that whay it only costs you £1600 and you can run them both from 1 card
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Because that sort of LCD is nothing compared to a 30" Dell when it comes to picture quality.

But I'd agree with the projector comment: either that or buy three 2407s and one of those lil' boxes of tricks from Matrox.
 
i already have a projector lads - the sony hs50 projected on a 106" screen. thing is, the res is only 1280x720. i already have a dell so dont want to buy a tv since it would be lousy as a monitor (icons too big).

i just wanted to check that the ATi cards can do this since the last article i found on this (2004 tho) from toms hardware showed ATi couldnt use 2 monitors for 1 game
 
tomos said:
i already have a projector lads - the sony hs50 projected on a 106" screen. thing is, the res is only 1280x720. i already have a dell so dont want to buy a tv since it would be lousy as a monitor (icons too big).

i just wanted to check that the ATi cards can do this since the last article i found on this (2004 tho) from toms hardware showed ATi couldnt use 2 monitors for 1 game
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They can. I used to use 2 monitors on my old X800XT PE, i can still do it with my X1900XT-X now. As yuo said though 2004 so that a 9800.
 
Combat squirrel said:
How on earth can you run games across 2 monitors at the same time ? I have 2x19" monitors with an x1900XT and you can only run d3d in 1 monitor at a time
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You have to go into CCC and right click on the second monitor and select Horizontally span across this monitor! Then when you get in games there should be a 2560x1024 resolution present!
 
triggerthat said:
Some graphics cards have 2 outs. :)
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well yeah, hence why I have 2x19 monitors ;) .............but you carnt run a game over the 2 monitors unless its specifically written for it *as far as im aware* like I carnt run HL2 in 'widescreen' across my 2 19" monitors............can i ?
 
NOoooooooooo Warhammer doesnt support the 20somet by 1024 res, only 20somet by 1586, which doesnt display properly :( , only game this res would b useful on.........is there a way to force the res ?
 
Combat squirrel said:
NOoooooooooo Warhammer doesnt support the 20somet by 1024 res, only 20somet by 1586, which doesnt display properly :( , only game this res would b useful on.........is there a way to force the res ?
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In many cases though games dont support widescreen, but widescreen is becoming more popular so more games are comign with widescreen support! Half life 2 and Counter strike:Source look ace! But there unplayable with the divide.

Ive played Civ 4 across my 2 17"'s which is very nice!

Also there is many fixes to work around this, google Warhammer widescreen resolution fix or something, widescreen gaming website has fxes also!

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
 
Slight problem, games don't support 32:10 widescreen so you can't play a game across 2 monitors without it looking very stretched and distorted, and in fps games the crosshair would be in between the 2 screens.
 
ok if you want to play games over 2 monitors........dont. you need 3 monitors as the x-hair for games would like in the middle of the 2 monitors and would make the game unplayable. also spanning the desktop isnt nice when in the windows gui. 3 x 19" monitors is the way to go for widescreen gaming with one of those matrox triple head things.

you can also run games in a window stretched over the 3 monitors but that lowers the framerate.

save your money, or get 3 x 19" screen and a matrox triple head, costs about £600 for that lot.

daven
 
daven1986 said:
ok if you want to play games over 2 monitors........dont. you need 3 monitors as the x-hair for games would like in the middle of the 2 monitors and would make the game unplayable. also spanning the desktop isnt nice when in the windows gui. 3 x 19" monitors is the way to go for widescreen gaming with one of those matrox triple head things.

you can also run games in a window stretched over the 3 monitors but that lowers the framerate.

save your money, or get 3 x 19" screen and a matrox triple head, costs about £600 for that lot.

daven
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That would be even more streched.
 
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