Triple Monitor Setup graphics card needed

Daedaless · 12th Sep 2008, 12:54 PM

I am trying to set up triple monitors. I already have 2 monitors hooked up to an nVidia 7950 GX2. I am looking for a graphics card to attach my third monitor to. Any suggestions that will work with my mother board
Here are my specs:

FOXCONN NFORCE 590 SLI MOTHERBOARD
650 WATT POWER SUPPLY
Athlon 64 X2 5000 AM2 DC processor

I would like to be able to span games across all three monitors? what graphics cards can you guys recommend?

here is the card I am thinking of, will this work in my system?

ASUS EN9600GSO MAGIC/HTDP/512M GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Adrian Wong · 12th Sep 2008, 02:19 PM

Hmm.. I haven't personally tried it but you should be able to do so by hooking up another GeForce 7950 GX2 in SLI.

Chai · 12th Sep 2008, 05:37 PM

No. Once you enable SLI, there goes the multi monitor. One of the biggest limitation of SLI. Another cheap Nvidia card should be most ideal especially if you are not gaming with it.

Max_87 · 12th Sep 2008, 07:05 PM

Question is, what game? A lot of games don't support multi monitor setups (like 99% of them).

For games that doesn't support multi monitor, but supports very wide aspect ratio resolution, it will work if you can enable horizontal spanning mode (I don't think you can do this with 2 cards or if you are running vista). Extended mode will not work.

Matrox TripleHead2Go is a better solution.

Adrian Wong · 12th Sep 2008, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chai

No. Once you enable SLI, there goes the multi monitor. One of the biggest limitation of SLI. Another cheap Nvidia card should be most ideal especially if you are not gaming with it.

Hmm.. My mistake. Wait, was it CrossFire that can support multi-monitors then?

Chai · 13th Sep 2008, 08:54 AM

Why do you want to SLI 7950GX2? Performance gain is nil, and you don't get multi monitor. Leave it as normal dual card is even better.

But it's best to just get a low end Nvidia.

karhoe · 4th Oct 2008, 11:25 PM

You can try getting a motherboard with hybrid SLI or crossfire

Example

Any AMD 790GX board, I suggest getting Biostar one

Then use together with any ATI 3xxx or 4xxx card, you get triple/four outputs

2 from motherboard, 2 more from card

Note, most of the AMD 780/790 motherboards have 3 outputs, one DVI, one Analog and one HDMI

However the DVI shares the same source as HDMI, so you have to choose from BIOS which output to be used.

12th Sep 2008, 12:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
Daedaless Newbie Join Date: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Triple Monitor Setup graphics card needed I am trying to set up triple monitors. I already have 2 monitors hooked up to an nVidia 7950 GX2. I am looking for a graphics card to attach my third monitor to. Any suggestions that will work with my mother board Here are my specs: FOXCONN NFORCE 590 SLI MOTHERBOARD 650 WATT POWER SUPPLY Athlon 64 X2 5000 AM2 DC processor I would like to be able to span games across all three monitors? what graphics cards can you guys recommend? here is the card I am thinking of, will this work in my system? ASUS EN9600GSO MAGIC/HTDP/512M GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

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12th Sep 2008, 05:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
Chai Administrator Join Date: 6 Oct 2002 Location: Maranello Posts: 26,991 Reputation: 4108 Rep Power: 74	No. Once you enable SLI, there goes the multi monitor. One of the biggest limitation of SLI. Another cheap Nvidia card should be most ideal especially if you are not gaming with it. __________________ Chai (Contributor & Forum Admin) http://www.techarp.com/

12th Sep 2008, 07:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
Max_87 h@x! Join Date: 11 Aug 2003 Location: Sarawak, Malaysia. Posts: 11,332 Reputation: 2090 Rep Power: 37	Question is, what game? A lot of games don't support multi monitor setups (like 99% of them). For games that doesn't support multi monitor, but supports very wide aspect ratio resolution, it will work if you can enable horizontal spanning mode (I don't think you can do this with 2 cards or if you are running vista). Extended mode will not work. Matrox TripleHead2Go is a better solution. __________________ Max_87 Tech ARP http://www.techarp.com E8600 @ 4.4GHz 1.36v / Asus P5E3 Deluxe / 2x2GB DDR3 / Radeon X1800 / Barracuda 7200.9 120GB / 7200.10 320GB x2 / Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS / WD6400AAKS x2 / Dell 2007FP x2 / Silverstone ST56F

13th Sep 2008, 08:54 AM	#6 (permalink)
Chai Administrator Join Date: 6 Oct 2002 Location: Maranello Posts: 26,991 Reputation: 4108 Rep Power: 74	Why do you want to SLI 7950GX2? Performance gain is nil, and you don't get multi monitor. Leave it as normal dual card is even better. But it's best to just get a low end Nvidia. __________________ Chai (Contributor & Forum Admin) http://www.techarp.com/

4th Oct 2008, 11:25 PM	#7 (permalink)
karhoe I'm a regular Join Date: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 349 Reputation: 11 Rep Power: 3	You can try getting a motherboard with hybrid SLI or crossfire Example Any AMD 790GX board, I suggest getting Biostar one Then use together with any ATI 3xxx or 4xxx card, you get triple/four outputs 2 from motherboard, 2 more from card Note, most of the AMD 780/790 motherboards have 3 outputs, one DVI, one Analog and one HDMI However the DVI shares the same source as HDMI, so you have to choose from BIOS which output to be used. __________________ My Blog

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