Multiple monitors with my rig

Rollingskies · 8 Oct 2009 at 22:27

Hi,
I would like to know if my current set-up will allow me to use three monitors for flight simulation; see here:
http://www.fsinsider.com/product/learning/Documents/Using Multiple Monitors.pdf

What I want to know is; is it possible and how to do this on my rig? Or do I need to start buying more graphics cards or upgrade other stuff?

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail (overclocked)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Be Quiet! Straight Power 650W ATX2.2 SLi
Windows XP

johnerz · 9 Oct 2009 at 12:45

Yes its simple (but not as cheap as it first looks

The video card/s for the job
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-214-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1502

Now I copied this from a review site

The standard Radeon HD 5870 can drive three outputs simultaneously: any combination of the DVI and HDMI ports for up to 2 monitors, and a DisplayPort output independent of DVI/HDMI.

What it means is that ONE of the three monitors MUST be a display port input. The other two are fine, So you will need some homework

J.B · 9 Oct 2009 at 13:52

I would say 2GB of RAM for tri monitor flight sim might struggle.

Rollingskies · 9 Oct 2009 at 13:53

Thanks for that. I was looking at the Matrox triplehead2 as well. I think I'll just buy one more and run two monitors for now!

Rollingskies · 9 Oct 2009 at 13:54

J.B said:
I would say 2GB of RAM for tri monitor flight sim might struggle.

I intend fixing that, when I upgrade to Windows 7. XP doesn't let you stick more than 3gigs in I don't think.