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8600GT multi monitor question
I have 3 monitors and I want to upgrade my video cards.
I was looking at getting 2x 512meg evga 8600GT cards. Would I be able to use them in SLI for full screen gaming across the 3 monitors? I was also thinking of getting a faster card and using a matrox dualhead2go to span the three monitors, but my middle and newest monitor has a stupid 1050 native resolution while the other 2 have 1024 and I'm not sure that it would work. TIA for any info. |
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8600GT multi monitor question
I have 5 monitors, and I want to upgrade my videocards. Should I get 3
of them ? I was thinking of 8600GTS, too. Should I connect two of them in SLI mode ? |
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8600GT multi monitor question
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I have 3 monitors and I want to upgrade my video cards. I was looking at getting 2x 512meg evga 8600GT cards. Would I be able to use them in SLI for full screen gaming across the 3 monitors? I was also thinking of getting a faster card and using a matrox dualhead2go to span the three monitors, but my middle and newest monitor has a stupid 1050 native resolution while the other 2 have 1024 and I'm not sure that it would work. TIA for any info. Can you test the middle monitor at 1024 using your existing video card, and see what it looks like ? If that works, then maybe you can use a TripleHead2Go. This one is digital. Presumably a dual-link DVI connector is needed on the video card driving the connection to the TripleHead2Go, because 3840 x 1024 @ 60Hz is a lot of pixels to push. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gx...gital/home.php http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/co...patibility.php "Key features * Features a dual-link digital input for high-end workstations and DVI monitors." They list a contact address of insales at matrox.com, if you have questions for them. GPUs equipped with dual-link DVI. http://www.nvidia.com/page/technolog...me_hd_gpu.html The gap between monitors can be annoying, and that is why I wouldn't waste the money on this. (I have seen monitor designs, where LCD panels are joined on hinges, to make a panoramic display device, so that might give a smaller gap.) Also, it is possible that game support for those panoramic resolutions might not exist (something you want to check for your favorite game at least). This article is for the analog version, so the digital one won't have the same internal design or connector types on the outside of the Matrox box. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2806 Regarding SLI video cards, this is from the Nvidia FAQ. Two cards drive one monitor while in SLI mode, or four monitors in non-SLI mode. Using SLI mode and a TripleHead2Go, is one way to make a single connector span three monitors. So I guess, in a sense, there is no difference between one big video card driving a single connector, and two in SLI driving a single connector. http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_faq.html "How many monitors are supported when running in SLI mode? When in multi-GPU mode, SLI currently supports one monitor. When in single-GPU mode, users have the ability to use up to four monitors using NVIDIA nView multi-display technology and Windows XP Dualview." Best guess, Paul |
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8600GT multi monitor question
On Nov 25, 11:10 am, Paul wrote:
wrote: I have 3 monitors and I want to upgrade my video cards. I was looking at getting 2x 512meg evga 8600GT cards. Would I be able to use them in SLI for full screen gaming across the 3 monitors? I was also thinking of getting a faster card and using a matrox dualhead2go to span the three monitors, but my middle and newest monitor has a stupid 1050 native resolution while the other 2 have 1024 and I'm not sure that it would work. TIA for any info. Can you test the middle monitor at 1024 using your existing video card, and see what it looks like ? If that works, then maybe you can use a TripleHead2Go. This one is digital. Presumably a dual-link DVI connector is needed on the video card driving the connection to the TripleHead2Go, because 3840 x 1024 @ 60Hz is a lot of pixels to push. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gx...bility/compati... "Key features * Features a dual-link digital input for high-end workstations and DVI monitors." They list a contact address of insales at matrox.com, if you have questions for them. GPUs equipped with dual-link DVI.http://www.nvidia.com/page/technolog...me_hd_gpu.html The gap between monitors can be annoying, and that is why I wouldn't waste the money on this. (I have seen monitor designs, where LCD panels are joined on hinges, to make a panoramic display device, so that might give a smaller gap.) Also, it is possible that game support for those panoramic resolutions might not exist (something you want to check for your favorite game at least). This article is for the analog version, so the digital one won't have the same internal design or connector types on the outside of the Matrox box. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2806 Regarding SLI video cards, this is from the Nvidia FAQ. Two cards drive one monitor while in SLI mode, or four monitors in non-SLI mode. Using SLI mode and a TripleHead2Go, is one way to make a single connector span three monitors. So I guess, in a sense, there is no difference between one big video card driving a single connector, and two in SLI driving a single connector. http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_faq.html "How many monitors are supported when running in SLI mode? When in multi-GPU mode, SLI currently supports one monitor. When in single-GPU mode, users have the ability to use up to four monitors using NVIDIA nView multi-display technology and Windows XP Dualview." Best guess, Paul Thanks for all the info, Paul. The display looks wretched on the middle monitor at 1024 resolution on the desktop, though in games it doesn't seem that bad. If there's not too much messing around involved, maybe I could change the configuration when I want to use it for gaming. I have my games set up on a separate boot partition at the moment. It may not be too big a stretch to have the video go a different direction on a kvm just to play full screen games and keep my native resolution intact on my regular login. I was thinking about a dual head from matrox because usually nvidia cards have dual head built in already, so splitting one of those heads into 2 would give me three outputs for my monitors. I will be upgrading from two 5500's AGP/PCI. This will be my first SLI configuration and I'm not sure exactly what impacts SLI will have on a multi monitor setup. The descriptions in all the FAQs would probably only make sense to people with SLI experience. |
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