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upgrading to 3X DVI-D monitors

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Tostada

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I'm upgrading my system to 3X 1600x1200 DVI-D screens. I've had 3 screens for many years, and I found that the only solution that didn't give me headaches was having a single primary AGP card for the primary screen and then a secondary dual-head PCI card for the side screens. As far as games, I'm only concerned about the performance of the center screen.

So, I'm upgrading to 3 nice DVI-D panels, and I think I'd like to do the same thing. I want a single PCI-E x16 card running the main display and then some other dual-DVI-D card running the other two.

My options seem to be:

1) Get an SLI board but don't run SLI. Then I get a good card for the primary display and another PCI-E x16 dual-DVI-D card for the other two displays. I don't know anybody who's tried this, though, and I might run into strange compatability problems. I'd probably be getting a $130 XFX GF6600 for the side screens.

2) Use a non-SLI board and just get the a dual-head PCI card. ATI's FireMV 2200 looks like a decent dual-DVI-D PCI card for $144. This would probably be the best solution because I doubt there are any compatability problems I could run into, and I can upgrade my motherboard later without having to get an SLI board or worry about compatability with multiple PCI-E x16 cards. The FireMV cards are low-profile, though. How am I supposed to install that in a regular case without taking a set of pliars to it?

3) Get an SLI board and run it in SLI. Would this work? For example, say I get two dual-DVI-D GF6600GT cards. If I run them in SLI, can I still use the secondary DVI-D connections on each card for separate monitors? This would certainly be the way I'd want to go if it would work.



 
You can't run multiple screens with SLi enabled on the SLied cards. If SLi is not enabled, you can run both cards with monitors hooked up as you see fit (perhaps the primary card as your gamer, and the secondary for the other 2 monitors, for example).
 
Originally posted by: Ronin
You can't run multiple screens with SLi enabled on the SLied cards. If SLi is not enabled, you can run both cards with monitors hooked up as you see fit (perhaps the primary card as your gamer, and the secondary for the other 2 monitors, for example).
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I was wondering why it seemed werd he's right you can only use one card to connect your monitors. can anyone confirm there is cards out there with more than 2 dvi i thought maxtor made one i went to check there site but it looks like its down.

edit: lol, forgot i was running peer guardian 😀

 
Originally posted by: w00t
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813135191

sumthing like that msi makes one also would be good you could run one on the onboard xpress 200 and two with a pci-e card.

but there might be an easier way i thought maxtor made a card that supported more than two dvi anyone else seen that?
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What are you saying? Are you suggesting running a 1600x1200 digital panel off the on-board analog RX200 video? Did you actually read my post?

One of the main reasons I want a single dual-DVI card to run the secondary displays is because cards that support more than 2 displays are expensive and hard to find. With a single card running the primary display and another dual DVI-D card running the secondary displays, I can easily upgrade my primary graphics without having to worry about it.
 
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