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running 3 monitors!! anyone doing this?
Hi guys,
I'm wondering if anyone has had any issues running three monitors on their machine and if so what were they? Also what was/is your setup with regard to video card and motherboard compatabilities? I'm running a Supermicro m/b X5DAE (not the scsi version) my video card is a Quadro4 980 XGL third video card - Not sure yet, hoping to work out one from this thread! O/S is WinXP Pro the monitors are Hitachi CM721F Any help would be much appreciated. At the moment i have my third monitor not connected but don't want to hook it up until i've done some research on three monitor configurations. Cheers guys! Regards, Nick. |
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"niicko" wrote in message
... Hi guys, I'm wondering if anyone has had any issues running three monitors on their machine and if so what were they? Also what was/is your setup with regard to video card and motherboard compatabilities? I'm running a Supermicro m/b X5DAE (not the scsi version) my video card is a Quadro4 980 XGL third video card - Not sure yet, hoping to work out one from this thread! O/S is WinXP Pro the monitors are Hitachi CM721F Any help would be much appreciated. At the moment i have my third monitor not connected but don't want to hook it up until i've done some research on three monitor configurations. Cheers guys! Why are you running three monitors ? Is global warming not moving fast enough for you ? |
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"Draxen" wrote in message ... "niicko" wrote in message ... Hi guys, I'm wondering if anyone has had any issues running three monitors on their machine and if so what were they? Also what was/is your setup with regard to video card and motherboard compatabilities? I'm running a Supermicro m/b X5DAE (not the scsi version) my video card is a Quadro4 980 XGL third video card - Not sure yet, hoping to work out one from this thread! O/S is WinXP Pro the monitors are Hitachi CM721F Any help would be much appreciated. At the moment i have my third monitor not connected but don't want to hook it up until i've done some research on three monitor configurations. Cheers guys! Why are you running three monitors ? Is global warming not moving fast enough for you ? hahahaa! ..no I'm running Maya and Adobe Premiere/After Effects/Combustion and all are multi monitor and having three gives you a huge amount of real estate to play with. Work flow is so much easier and problem solving to. I can have most stuff open on the screen. At the moment only two are hooked up until i can make sure introducing a third is not going to make problems! Nicko. |
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niicko wrote: Hi guys, I'm wondering if anyone has had any issues running three monitors on their machine and if so what were they? Also what was/is your setup with regard to video card and motherboard compatabilities? Plenty of ppl run 3 monitors on one system. Why not check out the Matrox Parhelia, with support for 3 monitors on one AGP card. That way you won't have any compatibility issues. RJT |
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"niicko" wrote in message
... "Draxen" wrote in message ... "niicko" wrote in message ... Hi guys, I'm wondering if anyone has had any issues running three monitors on their machine and if so what were they? Also what was/is your setup with regard to video card and motherboard compatabilities? I'm running a Supermicro m/b X5DAE (not the scsi version) my video card is a Quadro4 980 XGL third video card - Not sure yet, hoping to work out one from this thread! O/S is WinXP Pro the monitors are Hitachi CM721F Any help would be much appreciated. At the moment i have my third monitor not connected but don't want to hook it up until i've done some research on three monitor configurations. Cheers guys! Why are you running three monitors ? Is global warming not moving fast enough for you ? hahahaa! ..no I'm running Maya and Adobe Premiere/After Effects/Combustion and all are multi monitor and having three gives you a huge amount of real estate to play with. Work flow is so much easier and problem solving to. I can have most stuff open on the screen. At the moment only two are hooked up until i can make sure introducing a third is not going to make problems! Ahh right, I didn't know there were any serious apps that made use of multi monitor setups, I thought it was restricted to eye-candy demos. OT: my only similar experience was with the original Doom game many years ago. Using three PC's you could set it so that two of them just displayed the left and right views of one player, incredibly useful just to be able to look left by turning your head. Downside was that setup would take up three of the maximum four player slots in a Deathmatch. |
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Draxen wrote:
Ahh right, I didn't know there were any serious apps that made use of multi monitor setups, I thought it was restricted to eye-candy demos. Quake]|[ can be used that way, cf. Matrox Parhelia's demos. -- XandreX /I'm that kind of people your parents warned you about/ |
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check out this page http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/
look in the data bace to see what cards work well together. in the gallery i think one guy has 11 monitors going on one sys. if you run in to any problems ask in the forum. -- If life is a bitch then live it like she is drunk and naked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com "niicko" wrote in message ... Hi guys, I'm wondering if anyone has had any issues running three monitors on their machine and if so what were they? Also what was/is your setup with regard to video card and motherboard compatabilities? I'm running a Supermicro m/b X5DAE (not the scsi version) my video card is a Quadro4 980 XGL third video card - Not sure yet, hoping to work out one from this thread! O/S is WinXP Pro the monitors are Hitachi CM721F Any help would be much appreciated. At the moment i have my third monitor not connected but don't want to hook it up until i've done some research on three monitor configurations. Cheers guys! Regards, Nick. |
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ahhh ok, yeah i've head of that! Thanx for the input
"Draxen" wrote in message ... "niicko" wrote in message ... "Draxen" wrote in message ... "niicko" wrote in message ... Hi guys, I'm wondering if anyone has had any issues running three monitors on their machine and if so what were they? Also what was/is your setup with regard to video card and motherboard compatabilities? I'm running a Supermicro m/b X5DAE (not the scsi version) my video card is a Quadro4 980 XGL third video card - Not sure yet, hoping to work out one from this thread! O/S is WinXP Pro the monitors are Hitachi CM721F Any help would be much appreciated. At the moment i have my third monitor not connected but don't want to hook it up until i've done some research on three monitor configurations. Cheers guys! Why are you running three monitors ? Is global warming not moving fast enough for you ? hahahaa! ..no I'm running Maya and Adobe Premiere/After Effects/Combustion and all are multi monitor and having three gives you a huge amount of real estate to play with. Work flow is so much easier and problem solving to. I can have most stuff open on the screen. At the moment only two are hooked up until i can make sure introducing a third is not going to make problems! Ahh right, I didn't know there were any serious apps that made use of multi monitor setups, I thought it was restricted to eye-candy demos. OT: my only similar experience was with the original Doom game many years ago. Using three PC's you could set it so that two of them just displayed the left and right views of one player, incredibly useful just to be able to look left by turning your head. Downside was that setup would take up three of the maximum four player slots in a Deathmatch. |
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Wait a second....Why are you even wasting your time posting a newsgroup
about that? If you want to run three monitors....give it a try. Windows 98 and above supports multiple monitors, as does the linux X server. Providing your graphics drivers support multiple displays, it will run. By the time you got an answer to your post on here, you could have had your graphics cards installed and found the answer for yourself. If you are wondering if something would work, try it. If you have a problem, try your hardest to fix it, then post the newsgroups. Its the best way to learn. :-) |
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so your saying he shuld blindly run out and get the first videocard he saw
and try it? his first post was asking what video card to use for 3rd monitor. time to cut and paste. (third video card - Not sure yet, hoping to work out one from this thread!) i may be wrong but it sounds like he dont want to spend his $ on the wrong video card. -- If life is a bitch then live it like she is drunk and naked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com "KeepGood" wrote in message ... Wait a second....Why are you even wasting your time posting a newsgroup about that? If you want to run three monitors....give it a try. Windows 98 and above supports multiple monitors, as does the linux X server. Providing your graphics drivers support multiple displays, it will run. By the time you got an answer to your post on here, you could have had your graphics cards installed and found the answer for yourself. If you are wondering if something would work, try it. If you have a problem, try your hardest to fix it, then post the newsgroups. Its the best way to learn. :-) |
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