Triple-head graphics card?

[pertek]

howdy, here goes it.....

I am looking for a graphics card that i can connect 3 tft's to, the only thing i know of is the Matrox triplehead cards BUT if i understand their website correctly 1 of those 3 connections is a rgb/tv connection. I know i can get a tft that recieves that connection but it res would be limited to a tv's res. (640x480 or thereabouts) or atleast it'l be that res then scaled to the res i set.

So where can i find such a wonderfull thing

thx in advance

[skuzgib]

Any dual head card, and a PCI card?
or SLI with the new NF4 boards

[Stoo]

Na, Matrox do a triplehead card which will do what you're asking: http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstatio...elia/128mb.cfm

"TripleHead Desktop / Surround Design / Surround Gaming (3 displays)"

It just won't do triple dvi

However, it is incredibly expensive, so you'd probably be better off with a dual-head card and a cheapo pci card unless you *really* need an all in one solution..

[pertek]

so has just adding in a pci card been tried and tested? (do the pci cards have to be the same chipsets/brands.) The desktop will be spanned/shared between the 3. (not the same picture on all 3)

[directhex]

yes (no) yes (no), in that order

[pertek]

thanks guys, from what i have read XP is requisite for this is it not.

[unrealrocks]

I have quite alot of experience with running PCI graphics cards with AGP cards.

In my experience, running the same make is allways a good idea - preferably Nvidia I've found as there drivers load quite easily.

If the PCI card is older and doesn't seem to be loading (IE elcheapo eBay), try putting that as the master card in your BIOS - it'll only show the XP loading screen on that monitor - but once the drivers in windows have loaded you can set whichever screen to main. Only downside of this is that when running games some games won't like having a crap PCI card as the main GFX card (DOOM3 for eg). So having a newer PCI card is allways a good idea.

Running lots of graphics cards (esp PCI) puts a higher load on your CPU which means your performance will go down, especially if you leave your other monitors enabled when your playing games.