Matrox Triple-Head

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:58:27 Post Subject: Matrox Triple-Head

Anyone here use the item named above?

I really like the idea of my display spanned acrossed (3) monitors. ..gaming, CAD-E, multi-tasking, etc..

Any pros/cons to the piece of equipment mentioned above?? I still haven't settled on the VGA card(s) that I intend to use, but the graphics unit will be at least a 7900GT or higher - possibly SLI as well.

On the monitor end, I'm thinking (3) 19" low responce (<8ms) LCD's. Still weighing out in my mind the aspect ratio (widescreen or standard) and native resolutions I would need/want.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:09:04 Post Subject:

Why can't you just use nVidia's software to have a triple-head setup and skip this extra hardware?

And Viewsonic VX922 19" LCD monitor works great for me. 2ms response time Smile

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knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:14:48 Post Subject:

From my experience, using multiple heads on the card(s) creates a major hit in performance. Where as I'm hoping the Triple Head unit doesn't have the same or as much of a hit.

The card will think theres only one monitor(a really wide one), and the Matrox unit spanning the output across the 3 LCD/CRTs.