Tri-Moniter Setup?

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Hi all,

first of all, sorry if this has been answered before, i have been out of PC's for a while and things have changed a lot

I have decided to get three 17/19" moniters instead of one 24".

The reason for this is, it works out about the same price...for many more "'s

However atm i only have one X800 GTO gfx card, it has one DVI and one VGA output. If it went for three moniters would this mean that i have to buy another graphics card with dual-DVI output,?

Also i would occasionally like to play games on my PC, not seriously but i do buy the occasional game if everybody is raving about it. Would i need to just settle for playing from one moniter, or could i use all three at once-properly (no menus on the extra moniters ect...)

Thanks in Advance
Deano

 

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If you want to game across 3 monitors, realistically you need a matrox triplehead2go. Unfortunately these aren't very ATi happy (well, completely unsupported...), but with an X800 you'd probably be struggling anyway.

I've got a triplehead2go on the marketplace that I can't seem to sell. In a couple of hundred posts maybe you can take it off my hands!

Im getting a triplehead2go + 3 Dell 17"ers
Anybody like to recomend me a graphics card which i can scrape through games with. I run an opteron which i can overclock to 3ghz if really needed. Also got 2gb of GSkill superdooper Ram.....Im on a TIGHT BUDGET now.