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3LCD's - 1PC

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Bigga

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whats the best way to have 3 LCDS (19" samsung 915n's) on 1 pc displaying a single desktop (not clones)


video card is pcie x700 256
 
2 video cards... stick another ATI card in one of your PCI slots and you should be doing fine.
 
Or a Matrox card if you don't want to game on that computer. They have cards that support more than 2 monitors.
 
should i just get an SLI motherboard and put 2 of the same x700s in.. i know they wont run in SLI but would it support 2 seperate pcie cards?
 
Bigga said:
should i just get an SLI motherboard and put 2 of the same x700s in.. i know they wont run in SLI but would it support 2 seperate pcie cards?
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SLI on the board doesnt work like that. You can simply keep your X700 and buy yourself a cheap PCI (not PCIe) card that will do the job for you.
 
Several companies make cards that support over two monitors, but they're typically going to cost extra. Just add a second vid card. New motherboard if you want, or just get a PCI one.
 
Skrying said:
SLI on the board doesnt work like that. You can simply keep your X700 and buy yourself a cheap PCI (not PCIe) card that will do the job for you.
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Unless specific motherboards are an exception (don't know of any that are but I suppose it's possible) you have to explicitly change the board to operate in SLI mode vs. two cards acting independantly. My motherboard came preset to independant operation, and there's a big block of jumpers you have to change for SLI mode (not that the Ultra-D is officially supposed to be able to do SLI...). I think the Asus board has some funny card thing that you have to flip around...the implementation varies but that's how it works.
 
ashmedai said:
Unless specific motherboards are an exception (don't know of any that are but I suppose it's possible) you have to explicitly change the board to operate in SLI mode vs. two cards acting independantly. My motherboard came preset to independant operation, and there's a big block of jumpers you have to change for SLI mode (not that the Ultra-D is officially supposed to be able to do SLI...). I think the Asus board has some funny card thing that you have to flip around...the implementation varies but that's how it works.
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Will it they work independantly of each other if they are ATi cards, or if one is another card (say a X700 with an X800, or some other mixture)? I've seen where you can do this and have one ATi card and one Nvidia, but I didnt read or know if you could use it that way to run triple monitors.
 
Skrying said:
Will it they work independantly of each other if they are ATi cards, or if one is another card (say a X700 with an X800, or some other mixture)? I've seen where you can do this and have one ATi card and one Nvidia, but I didnt read or know if you could use it that way to run triple monitors.
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Since SLI is an nVidia thing, you kinda have to run in independant mode with ATI cards. It's generally easier to stick with all ATI or all nVidia video cards in one system just because then you don't have to fight with the drivers. An X800 + X700 should work fine together provided you make sure the motherboard & BIOS are properly configured.
 
ashmedai said:
Since SLI is an nVidia thing, you kinda have to run in independant mode with ATI cards. It's generally easier to stick with all ATI or all nVidia video cards in one system just because then you don't have to fight with the drivers. An X800 + X700 should work fine together provided you make sure the motherboard & BIOS are properly configured.
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Ahh, thank you. Clears it up for me.
 
anyways haha back to MY question haha...

the guy im building this comp for is a chairman and CEO of a big stock & mutual funds company in boston. money is NO OBJECT.

im thinking independent PCIe x700's on a SLI board.. so jus for confirmation.. it IS possible to run 2 pcie ATI's INDEPENDENTLY on a SLI board correct?
 
Bigga said:
anyways haha back to MY question haha...

the guy im building this comp for is a chairman and CEO of a big stock & mutual funds company in boston. money is NO OBJECT.

im thinking independent PCIe x700's on a SLI board.. so jus for confirmation.. it IS possible to run 2 pcie ATI's INDEPENDENTLY on a SLI board correct?
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Well, if money is no object, and he doesnt game, I'd really suggest you looking into a Matrox. Those bad boys have AMAZING image quality in 2D, just beautiful. Plus they make models that support 3 monitors from just one card.

Or, I'd suggest you getting a much more powerful card (X800XL or 6800GT) and getting a PCI card for the 3rd monitor.

Either way, I suggest against the dual X700 idea.
 
to answer your question, yes, if you run an SLI board with two ATI cards they will both offer two outputs (clones) so you can run up to four monitors each with the same display. :)
 
ViN86 said:
to answer your question, yes, if you run an SLI board with two ATI cards they will both offer two outputs (clones) so you can run up to four monitors each with the same display. :)
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But he doesnt want clones.
 
The clone thing doesn't sound right but I'd check in to it. Two seperate video cards shouldn't be capable of cloning without doing it in software & having a nice CPU load to pull it off.

If the $$ are meaningless, just get a pair of nVidia cards. I'm much happier with their multimonitor implementation. I ran 3x monitors on my current rig temporarily but one of them had to go to a different computer, and I'm waiting on a good deal on a Dell widescreen.

As far as I know ATI should work fine. Haven't tried it with their cards. Had an ATI AGP card cooperating with some nameless PCI card at one point several years ago, one monitor on each.

A Matrox triplehead card would most likely simplify this quite a bit, depends what he's going to be doing on the screens. If it's a bunch of stock & mutual businessy stuff this is probably the best way to go.
 
ya i dont want clones. the guy is lokoing at wide ass spread sheets... he goes 'im not satisfied with one monitor' lol like he was saying hes not satisfied with1 meal a day or something... i dunno hes def loaded tho...

so ya i know each card will display 2 monitors in clone or sidebyside but i need the 2nd card to display sidebyside to the first card lol... NO CLONE.
 
You CAN do it with two cards. BUT given the system and user in question, I'd lean strongly in favor of Matrox. That and maybe get the guy 3x Dell 2005FPW if they're just THAT wide. :D
 
Bigga said:
ya i dont want clones. the guy is lokoing at wide ass spread sheets... he goes 'im not satisfied with one monitor' lol like he was saying hes not satisfied with1 meal a day or something... i dunno hes def loaded tho...

so ya i know each card will display 2 monitors in clone or sidebyside but i need the 2nd card to display sidebyside to the first card lol... NO CLONE.
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http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/digital_design/products/pseries/p750.cfm

2D with 3 monitors at its fullest of beauty.

And since money is no object: http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/digital_design/products/parhelia/256mb.cfm

And to buy it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814106163
 
Get him a few Dell 2405FPWs too if he can afford it... ~$3000 of monitors will get him enough spreadsheet viewing space to sink the Titanic... or something
 
surround view. get an ati chipset with onboard video and a 2-out ati add-in card.
 
Skrying said:
But he doesnt want clones.
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oops, yea youd have to get a special vid card. dual vid cards wouldnt be able to do that (at least with an SLI board you wouldnt.... yet. speculation of a driver with such features has been going around for a while)
 
Skrying said:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/digital_design/products/pseries/p750.cfm

2D with 3 monitors at its fullest of beauty.

And since money is no object: http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/digital_design/products/parhelia/256mb.cfm

And to buy it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814106163
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I think he has it nailed. I am under the impression that Matrox really know their multi-display stuff.

Also consider this:
http://www.esignalcentral.com/exchange/v19_07/your_trading_office.asp
or this:
http://www.datapath.co.uk/ih4range.htm
or this:
http://www.detools.com/shop/AGP/appianx.html

but i think matrox is 'cheaper' so you can spend that extra cash on some 2405s :D
 
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