Hi Chris,
I don't play games too, but I bought the setup to be able to calibrate both
monitors seperately. Yes, It is pretty awesome, though I have yet to install
a game on my machine :-)
A friend has been using normal 6600 nvidia cards with 4 samsung monitors
setup in a square, using two cards as well.
Only thing is you have to reboot to change from SLI to dual view
I am very happy with it, if you just want to run two monitors, then I have
been very happy with Matrox cards in the past, I have a parhelia in my other
box, which can run 3 (three) screens of one card.
Hope this helps, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact
me,
Kindest regards
Henrik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'The Hardware List'" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: [H] Dual Display
Hi Henrik,
Thank you very much for the response. I really don't care about the SLI.
I'm not that into gaming. I'm mainly just concerned about the dual
displays. However, if I'm reading this correctly it sounds pretty cool.
Could I use both video cards together, in SLI mode, to output a game on
one
display? And when not playing games, use both video cards independently
for
dual display in windows? If so, that would be pretty awesome.
Thanks!
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henrik Tived
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:19 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Dual Display
Hi Chris,
if you have compatible cards, you can run SLI on one screen, regardless of
how many screens you have connected.
I use two Nvidia Quadro FX 3400 PCIe, which are connected to two Dell 2405
LCD's, I could hook two more up, but I would not be able to have SLI
running
:-)
I hope this answers your question, also if you want to color calibrate
your
screens, you need independent video cards for each screen with separete
LUT's
regards
Henrik Tived
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'The Hardware List'" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:57 PM
Subject: [H] Dual Display
I have an SLI motherboard, it's an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. I have a generic
video card that only supports one DVI. I'm adding a second flat panel.
If
I add a second PCI Express video card, can I run dual monitor? Or does
the
second video card only do processing?(for increased FPS in games)? Or do
I
need to buy a video card that has two DVI outs?
The video card will have to handle some high res. My first monitor runs
at
1680 x 1050, 32 bit color. Second monitor will run at 1280 x 1024.
Thanks!
Chris