Multi-Head Diplay

[jay75]

Does anyone have a three display setup that includes an AGP and a PCI card? I have a Geforce 4 ti 4400(vga & dvi output). Would a Geforce FX 5200(PCI) or a Geforce MX 440(PCI), dual head, pair up with it to enable a 3 or 4 monitor setup?

Does the PCI card, if its less powerful than the AGP, add on to the AGP's performance, lessen it or do both end up at the same level like RAM does?

I have googled about this, but most information is very old. almost 2002 and before. there are cases where people have not got them to work and here is a case where a guy has got it to work with what looks like a graphics card zoo !!

The Martrox Parhelia 512 with triple head, is far too expensive, and the gaming quality isn't supposed to be that good.

The link to my system setup is below. Its basically a P4 2.4ghz socket 478, 512MB ddr400 ram, Geforce 4 ti 4400 128MB AGP, windows 2000 professional.

 

[vshah]

gf4 and any pci nvidia card will work perfectly for a multi monitor setup. 2d performance shouldn't be an issue, and gaming performance will be unchanged.

-Vivan

 

[jay75]

the setup is meant for gaming. would absolutely any nvidia PCI card do, as in would a geforce mx 440 be as good as a geforce fx 5200 and give the same gaming performance? is the PCI card just used as an output to the third monitor. therefore should i get the cheapest PCI card available?

 

[beatle]

Whatever PCI card you get won't make a difference to gaming.

Get an inexpensive PCI card. Just make sure that if you get an ATI that it's at least a Radeon (any Radeon). Previous generation cards won't work

 

[AnonymouseUser]

If you are looking to game on 2 or more displays at once, the PCI card simply won't cut it for new games. It will have to be nothing more than a 2nd/3rd desktop.

 

[jay75]

Originally posted by: beatle
Whatever PCI card you get won't make a difference to gaming.

Get an inexpensive PCI card. Just make sure that if you get an ATI that it's at least a Radeon (any Radeon). Previous generation cards won't work

are you saying that i can have an ATI radeon PCI card work along with an Nvidia AGP card? won't the drivers clash?

and would a very low end RIVA TNT 2 (32-BIT)PCI card work ok?

 

[cremefilled]

To add another question:

Is is possible to the "triple-head" gaming with 1/2 PCI cards added on? I thought that triple-head sounded pretty cool when it came out, especially for FPS and racing games.

I'm hoping it has some sort of resurgence when PCI-E becomes mainstream.