triple monitor quandry

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hi,

would it be better to run three monitors with a matox digital 3way splitter

or alternativly get a second gpu and run three with the avi connections?

I understand that the matrox splitter will limit the screen res on each monitor.

so would that mean that if i had two sperate gpus i could have higher screen res on each of them then i would on the matrox??
 
If its only or mainly for desktop work, get a second GPU, you can run all 3 monitors at whatever res they are capable of. You can game this way using software triple head but it has poor support performance is affected.
TripleHead2go will all monitors to be running the same resolution up to a maximum of 1680x1050 (at the moment). Its the one to for if your a gamer.
 
cheers,

i've got an ati card i believe that they will have a forced lower res then using an nvidia card?

have you hard if maxtrox have any kind of firmware update which may adjydt this in the pipline?
 
Its nothing to do with Matrox, its Ati cards and/or its drivers which dont allow them to display certain resolution. If you wanted to run Th2Go in widescreen, I'd sell up and get a Nvidia card. The matrox card does not interact with the graphic card in anyway, it just tricks it into thinking you have a larger monitor plugged in. So if someone came up with a single wide 5040x1050 monitor, it still would not works with Ati cards.
 
for gaming get a TH2Go, if its mainly for work get a second gpu, and run them from that

max res with the matrox th2go for each monitor is 1680*1050 and the monitor needs to be able to run @ 57hz at that res

With the second gpu, can run at whatever native res of monitor is
 
I have a Matrox card running 4 monitors - have had matrox rtunning 4 for 7 years now - very simple but no good for games as not enough memory!

khushy
 
khushy said:
I have a Matrox card running 4 monitors - have had matrox rtunning 4 for 7 years now - very simple but no good for games as not enough memory!

khushy
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Seems plenty of ones are enjoying them for gaming (with the right hardware)

Speaking of which if i may add in on the discussion, couple of questions.

Regards Surround Gaming:

1: As THTG Digital combines the monitors to act as a single display does this then mean that SLI works with no problems and of course full benifit that you would expect from triple monitors as if using only a single monitor?

2:Id be considering 2x 260s but waiting to see how the soon arriving 270 models fair?

3:I feel that dual mid range cards like these would be a better purchase than a 295 model?

4:Seems that with the latest games like SHIFT which will be very graphical intensive that perhaps even a 295 card will not offer a high enough framerate in "Surround Gaming via 3x 1680x1050". So if SLI isnt possible is it best to hold off untill the next high end Nvidia card arrives.
 
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Mr Latte said:
Seems plenty of ones are enjoying them for gaming (with the right hardware)

Speaking of which if i may add in on the discussion, couple of questions.

Regards Surround Gaming:

1: As THTG Digital combines the monitors to act as a single display does this then mean that SLI works with no problems and of course full benifit that you would expect from triple monitors as if using only a single monitor?

2:Id be considering 2x 260s but waiting to see how the soon arriving 270 models fair?

3:I feel that dual mid range cards like these would be a better purchase than a 295 model?

4:Seems that with the latest games like SHIFT which will be very graphical intensive that perhaps even a 295 card will not offer a high enough framerate in "Surround Gaming via 3x 1680x1050". So if SLI isnt possible is it best to hold off untill the next high end Nvidia card arrives.
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1) Yes SLi / Crossfire work fine as the video card sees just one big monitor (though as you know there are certain res's that just dont work on ATi cards like the important 5040x1050).

2) Faster the better, but the rule of diminishing returns apply.

3) Dont know. I'd personally stay away from Dual graphic cards and dual GPU cards as some games wont have much improvements, and you far more likely to run into Matrox driver issues especially on Vista 64 (which I run) it would seem. It seems to take Matrox quite a while to release a driver for new cards and new Nvidia drivers. I am on 180.48, anything newer and I lose 5040x1050 (other res's work) I havent tried the beta Matrox driver yet (my set up is perfectly satble and I dont want to go messing when everything works); it seem to work for some. I know that the 295 GTX needs the next release 181.20 and up to work.

4)So you will need to keep getting the latest Nvidia drivers to get the SLi profiles for newer games, which may cause compatiblity problems. So personally I'd stick with a fastest single GPU and upgrade when a significantly faster one is released and Matrox releases a new driver for it.
 
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if you want the screen for work (desktop) stuff why not look at DisplayLink

from what I have read they can handle lots of monitors at diff resolutions, I think the only problem is fairly poor 3D performance
 
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