At our business, users are now asking for triple head.
With modern systems, you can't use onboard video as well as a PCI-Express card. This leaves us with two options:
1) A PCI card
2) A true triple-head PCI-e card
No matter what, we don't want to spend more than $100 on a card, preferably in the $50-$70 range. So, Matrox is out of the picture, and we don't have multiple PCI-e x16 slots in any of our systems. PCI cards are hard to come by and most vendors aren't making newer chipsets in PCI. I'd just assume keep it as AMD since all of our onboard is AMD and we've had problems mixing nVidia and AMD in the past in the same system.
We tried a Radeon HD 5450 (bought the wrong one, needs a DisplayPort for Eyefinity, our 3rd port was HDMI) - but Eyefinity is very picky about the DisplayPort - DVI dongle you use, and our reseller doesn't stock any of their supported ones. Plus, the supported dongles are fairly expensive, starting at $35 or so.
Our big thing is that we want 3 distinct displays - we do NOT want a single 3840 x 1024 monitor, for example. While they didn't directly state it wasn't possible, they made it seem like the "one big monitor" bit was the only choice.
Can anyone verify this? Anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks -
Greg
With modern systems, you can't use onboard video as well as a PCI-Express card. This leaves us with two options:
1) A PCI card
2) A true triple-head PCI-e card
No matter what, we don't want to spend more than $100 on a card, preferably in the $50-$70 range. So, Matrox is out of the picture, and we don't have multiple PCI-e x16 slots in any of our systems. PCI cards are hard to come by and most vendors aren't making newer chipsets in PCI. I'd just assume keep it as AMD since all of our onboard is AMD and we've had problems mixing nVidia and AMD in the past in the same system.
We tried a Radeon HD 5450 (bought the wrong one, needs a DisplayPort for Eyefinity, our 3rd port was HDMI) - but Eyefinity is very picky about the DisplayPort - DVI dongle you use, and our reseller doesn't stock any of their supported ones. Plus, the supported dongles are fairly expensive, starting at $35 or so.
Our big thing is that we want 3 distinct displays - we do NOT want a single 3840 x 1024 monitor, for example. While they didn't directly state it wasn't possible, they made it seem like the "one big monitor" bit was the only choice.
Can anyone verify this? Anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks -
Greg