Triple Monitor Setup!

[FuturePerfect]

I was just wandering, what would i need for a triple monitor setup, obviously 3 monitors but i did see something about a special port thing, and also could you give the price for a triple setup.

Forget about the price, i'm not going to get it, well you could show the price actually.

[jkrohn]

There are a few ways to do it.

The cheapest would be to get an AGP/PCI-E card that supports dual monitors and a PCI card to drive the third.

Alternatively you could buy a card that supports 3 monitors on its own, but they are much more expensive.

Jkrohn

[FuturePerfect]

Ok, yeh if i did want one it s better to just get a big monitor like 19", what sizes are there after 19"?

[SeanC]

Monitors continue going up by 2" (ie: 19" 21" 23" etc...)

Sean

[DallasDon]

triple monitors are nice. What exactly are you going to do with it? You can do a setup like this from less than $100, including monitors and vid cars, if you are only going to do desktop 2d Applications.




For better quality, it's all aoubt what resolutions your card(s) and monitors will support.

Here's my latest version, three 19 inch Samsungs rotated 90 degrees

[HeadBand]

a 19" CRT is actually about the minimum I would reccomend anymore

if you are looking at a 2 or 3 monitor setup go with atleast 19" for each

that 2" think is not really true there are 20" and 24" as well and a few obscure older sizes as well

[DarkStar02]

C'mon guys. What he's looking for is SURROUND GAMING on a Matrox Triple Head 2 Go adaptor! You want three 19" LCD's of the same brand and a Matrox Triple Head 2 go box and whallah! Surround gaming.

[RamonGTP]

Yeah maybe... If Matrox could develop a decent gaming card that would be nice. While their cards have better image quality than nVidia or ATI has, they are also under powered and overpriced.

[M_Six]

Triple is the way to go. Wish these were LCDs, though.

[Sixpac_XP]

I don't use Tripple Head.. I just use dual PCI-E cards (one 9800GT and one 6600GT) and have support for 4 monitors.

2-19", 1-20" and 1-17".. (all Flat panel LCD's using DVI)

Works great for me.

[M_Six]

Real estate is good, eh Sixpac?

[Sixpac_XP]

Real estate is good, eh Sixpac?

sure is...

M_Six

[FuturePerfect]

Yeh i wanted it for surround gaming, i saw the triple to go on oblivionsource.com, recently ordered Oblivion, and thought it looked pretty cool. I don't know whether i will be able get the triple monitor setup because i want to upgrade my computer my computer first, new mobo, graphics card, extra 1gb of ram, extra power unit and maybe a sounds card.

[rabidwolff]

I use 3 monitors now but want to upgrade them.

Was thinking of using a 24-28 inch main, flanked by two 17-19 inch or something. But want the height of the main to equal the width of the sides (move them vertical) to make them seamless by screen size and monitor size.

Anyone know of what brands to use to do this without breaking the bank? Rather buy monitors separately to make it cheaper.

[bigBonehead]

Since this thread was well over three y/o, I'd think you might be better off starting a new topic...

[MexNopal]

I use one PCI-E and one PCI, both ATI.

[tradingkevin]

I bought a Multi dispaly Adapter USB 2.0 UGA from dispalylink and it worked great. It cost me about 70 USD. It would have cost me around 300 USD if I had to buy a graffic card that support 3 monitors since I had thin tower which did not accept standard graphic cards. So that was a great work around. You can even add up to 6 monitor using this external adapter. pretty cool.