[H] three head vid card wanted
Hey All, Looking for recommendations for a video card the will run three monitors. Thanks in advance, Al How can you talk, if you don't have a brain asked Dorothy I don't know, said the Scarecrow. But many people without brains do a awful lot of talking.
Re: [H] three head vid card wanted
Chris Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To do what on the three monitors? There are solutions out there, but it depends on what you are trying to do. There is still only one native, single card 3 monitor solution. 2D text mainly. Thx, Al
Re: [H] three head vid card wanted
Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2D text mainly. and three or more thx, Al
Re: [H] three head vid card wanted
And has to be a single card, or will multi cards work? If it has to be a single AGP type card, the Matrox P750 is the only one I know of that does a good job of a 3 monitor display single solution (they also have a 4/6/8 monitor solution out there) If you're willing to use multi-cards, here's one I've seen: you can get any video card (any sort) most will do dual display; Matrox has a x1 PCI-Express dualhead card with manager software that would allow you up to four displays.. Or, if you buy an SLI board, you can run two cards seperate instead of SLI to create your multidisplays. (also possible). Anyway, lots of options, I'm not really sure what the need is. But if you require just a single card type solution, right now, there is only one of those. -Original message- From: Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:12:29 -0500 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] three head vid card wanted Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2D text mainly. and three or more thx, Al
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Assuming you are talking about a individual workstation, and not some kind of IT network monitoring box, Matrox Parhelia is going to be your best choice for this. I have been doing multi monitor for a decade and no other manufacturer does it as well as Matrox drivers. Period. Nobody is even close. I have been using ATI AIW for a few years now... well one box still has a couple of G450s, and ATI SUCKS when it comes to multi monitor. They really don't want to support it, they discourage it, you can not install two ATI cards in the same box without tricking the drivers. And even then it isn't worth all the trouble. If you want more then three monitors on one card, then you get into very expensive Matrox commercial cards. If you want four or five then get the Parhelia and then a couple of 40 dollar PCI G450s on Ebay. Stick then all in, install the constantly updated Matrox drivers, and your done. Lots of useful multi monitor features with the Matrox drivers, plus what PCMAG called the gold standard for 2D. Bottom line is that Matrox has built their retail reputation on 2D and multi monitor, a field left pretty much to them. I At 10:11 AM 9/17/2005, you wrote: Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2D text mainly. and three or more thx, Al
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CW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And has to be a single card, or will multi cards work? I'd like a single card Anyway, lots of options, I'm not really sure what the need is. Nothin' fancy: email, web, IRC, newsgroups, file manager, Gimp/PShop, VICE (C64 emulator), HTML editing, ftp, etc. Thanks for the replies, all Al
RE: [H] three head vid card wanted
I picked up a Quad head G200 PCI a few years ago on eBay, still got it, never had more than one monitor on it though, just never got the cash or the space to splash out on a multi-monitor workstation. One thing I noticed though, when installing it with Win2K I needed to boot into safe more to install the drivers correctly. Can't remember exactly what went on when windows tried to apply it standard VGA drivers to the four chips in normal mode, but I think it just hung. XP is probably much better behaved with these cards. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: 17 September 2005 18:33 To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] three head vid card wanted Assuming you are talking about a individual workstation, and not some kind of IT network monitoring box, Matrox Parhelia is going to be your best choice for this. I have been doing multi monitor for a decade and no other manufacturer does it as well as Matrox drivers. Period. Nobody is even close. I have been using ATI AIW for a few years now... well one box still has a couple of G450s, and ATI SUCKS when it comes to multi monitor. They really don't want to support it, they discourage it, you can not install two ATI cards in the same box without tricking the drivers. And even then it isn't worth all the trouble. If you want more then three monitors on one card, then you get into very expensive Matrox commercial cards. If you want four or five then get the Parhelia and then a couple of 40 dollar PCI G450s on Ebay. Stick then all in, install the constantly updated Matrox drivers, and your done. Lots of useful multi monitor features with the Matrox drivers, plus what PCMAG called the gold standard for 2D. Bottom line is that Matrox has built their retail reputation on 2D and multi monitor, a field left pretty much to them. I At 10:11 AM 9/17/2005, you wrote: Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2D text mainly. and three or more thx, Al
