What graphics card(s) for 3 1920x1200 monitors?

[Shmee150]

I currently have a 7800GTX running two 1920x1200 monitors but am very tempted to get a third... Reason being that before getting them it never occured to me that whatever you did across the two (i.e. games/movies) the centre of the image would cross the screens and look a bit stupid... So for games like counter-strike it would be good to have a third to play across them all with the centre where it should be in the centre of a screen!

So basically when I upgrade my computer in a month or two the wish for a third screen is something to be considered and so what graphics card(s) will I require to play what would be a current high requirements game?

I'm slightly confused by getting two good graphics cards such as 7900GTX in one slot and then something like a 7600GT in the other, so running 2 monitors on the 7900gtx and 1 on the 7600GT. I'm hoping windows display manager would be able to detect the three screens but does anybody know if you could actually then do a span across them all?

Thank you for your time!

ShMeE

[Shmee150]

A bit more googling found me this:

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2004/11/23/nvidia/page31.html

So in principal it can be done with different graphics cards... but I suppose what I want to know is if you can control them through the nVidia software to create a horizontal span rather than having to use Windows in which case a span wouldn't be possible.

Thanks,

ShMeE

[BUFF]

have a look at the new Matrox Triplehead 2 Go.
There's been a spate of reviews this week e.g. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...ad_2_go/1.html

[nichomach]

I had a look at that, and I'm scratching my head a little. No DVI, supports a max res of 1024 vertical pixels. You already have to factor in SLI to your costs, and if you already have an SLI rig, chances are that you've got a screen that supports a greater number of vertical pixels than that. I suppose the way I'd view it is that you can pick up some very nice 19" analogue only screens at the moment for a very reasonable price, so they might make sense with it.