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At Last - surround gaming with decent graphics

This would be pretty good if you took the TFT panel & components out of the screen case's and built something to hold all three close together (so there is no gaps between the screen)
 
What didnt work, the triplehead? Works ok for me even at the high resolutions. Try turning down only the texturs to save on the memory - up the AA & AF as thats GPU based.

I've found that after a couple of mins you dont notice the gaps, and with the angling you almost forget they are there! The expanded FOV is a must, shame EA consider it cheating (suppose they consider a high end gaming rig cheating too!!!)

If you wanted no gaps I've seen a couple of solutions but they are specially built and come in around £4000 - I would rather save the £3350 ish and put up with the gaps! ;)

xolotl - I'll try when I get some time - bit critical tomorrow as I'm off to see new house!
 
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Again - the problem at the higher res is the memory and not the speed (and perhaps a little poor coding!)

Considering Fear is running at full whack that pretty much covers the 'top end' games.

As TBird said - turn some of the texture settings down and you should have no issues even at measly 24" resolutions :p
 
Darn it - OCUK have got the Triplehead2go at a cheaper price than I brought it. Well done - awsome piece of kit! Works great with SLI - think thats what it was designed for especially now 19 inch TFTs are so cheap!!
 
Dude - as promised, the updated resolutions from Matrox can be found Here - Now includes some widescreen modes, but not 1440*900 yet unfortunately, hopefully that'll come later! There are also some Gaming utilities Here that might help to ease the configuration issues!

If you need to store your kit somewhere while you're moving I'll happily look after your machines for you, at a reduced rate ;)
 
* Tip
Place your left/right monitors borders behind the border of your centre screen.

This way you will find they line up better and ideally your only having one TFT border/frame now.

Have fun, any shots of racing games, or like GTR?
 
No shots yet, kit is packed up ready for house move next weekend. Soon as I'm settled will give it a good run, think I'll try the outer 2 monitors in frount of centre so I can still have the angle - thats what makes it so much better (for me) than a big widescreen!
 
TBirdUK said:
Anyone know how I can get a second output when I am running in SLI? (apart from putting a PCI card in) as I would like to use a projector as you did
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You can't AFAIK. That's what i thought the main benefit of the triple head was, you could use SLi with multiple screens.
 
Not sure I see what you're trying to do? 3 screens off the TH2Go and also the Projector? If you want the same output you'd be better off getting one of those vga splitter cables that gives 2 cloned outputs (though you'd still have to change the resolution from projector to uber-wide and back again every time you change.

Otherwise, just disable the SLi (can't you do that in software now with the latest driver revisions?) Plug the Projector into the lower card and whenever you want to use it just disable the SLi and you'll be able to use all 4 outputs - could have the TH2Go (3 screens) and the touch screen on one, with the projector and your LCD TV on the other - no idea what you'd do with it all, but would be a great 'I did it because I could' moment :D
 
Without SLI the output to the 3840 x 1024 will not cope - thought about putting another card in there, PCI, so I have another monitor to monitor temps etc but not sure if it would work.

Am going to put the SLI into the dual core machine when I am settled back in and give it a go unless someone has a better idea (i do like to monitor the temps with mbm5 whilst playing!) :D
 
Vai said:
This would be pretty good if you took the TFT panel & components out of the screen case's and built something to hold all three close together (so there is no gaps between the screen)
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If some bright spark of a company did this and bundled the monitors with a triplehead2go, they'd do very well I think. I'd buy for sure. Well, if I could raise the cash.
 
It's actually a very easy DIY to remove them from the screen casing - I've seen some brilliant mods with screens attached to case sides, posters, you name it. The problem is you risk damaging it casing and the inards, and even then you'll still get a tiny gap. There are plenty of solutions holding the three monitors together (but you'd still have the gap.) As TBird said, you really don't notice the gap as it's in your peripheral vision.

I keep trying to convince him to use this with his 2 projectors (and steal a third) then he'd have widescreen, full wall, 12 foot, no gap gaming - might have to get him to knock out a couple of walls in his new pad :D
 
easyrider - congrats, you wont be dissapointed - one thing to note (and it took me a while to figure it out), make sure you set refresh to 60Mhz otherwise the screens go all wierd. :D
 
Easyrider, you got a second 7900GTX to go with that monster of yours? Be interesting to see how it scores compared to TBirds 78's - your's is 512Mb isn't it?
 
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