hornyleprechaun

I got this for my Dad for Xmas to replace his 2 22" Dell monitors.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824001392

He asked if it was possible to do 3 monitors, but this I was unsure of. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L. It has one PCI Express X16 bus (his current video card is here) and three unused PCI Express x1 slots.

If 3 monitors is possible can someone recommend what I need to look for to get him setup?

NSXNEXT

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What's the purpose? To fap in 3-D?

thunder04

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It's completely possible. I'm not up and up with the PCI Express SLI stuff these days, but back in the "old days", you just needed 3 video cards.

I assume that if you have two video cards that support dual displays, you could do anywhere from 1 to 4 displays, which should get him his 3.

The video drivers and OS should handle the rest.

jupitersolo

He wants to do something like this?

myron

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^ that would be so fucking sweet to have. DAMN. But I can't seem to get used to playing racing games with the steering wheel.

fuzzy02CLS

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I have setup a few with 3 or 4 big LCD's. You just need to add a 3rd video card, However your going to need something powerful to run those display sizes. And bump up the RAM of the PC.

hornyleprechaun

Add a 3rd or just a 2nd one? The current one he has is hooked up to the 2 Dell displays. I'm assuming I'd hook the Samsung one up to the PCI Express X16 and the Dells to the card in the PCI Express X1?

#1 STUNNA

Not anymore. You can do it on one video card. You can even do 6 monitors on one video card now


AMD eyefinity
http://www.amd.com/US/PRODUCTS/TECHN...eyefinity.aspx

Nvidia Surround
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-visi...echnology.html

CocheseUGA

I'd like to have two when I start working from home, but I don't think I'll get WAF.

rza49311

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Or this

http://www.crvd.com/

#1 STUNNA

you need to get your wife's approval for business decisions you make!?!? DAMN!!!

97BlackAckCL

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Either another video card, or you can get a piece of hardware that appears to be 1 monitor and splits the signal for you

Ken1997TL

I have dual 25", i don't think I could do 3 of them

hornyleprechaun

Yeah it's a little much, but since he retired he's been messing in the stock market making some small money ($50k/year). It's pretty cool to see one of his stock programs spread across multiple monitors with all the graphs/charts.

justnspace

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dual 30" at the office.
3 of them would be insane

Ken1997TL

Ahh ok, yeah I've seen the 'ultimate daytrader' setup with 3 monitors, reminds me of something from NORAD

AMUA6

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^


I get by with my 17" laptop monitor?

#1 STUNNA

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#1 STUNNA

You can do this with one video card.......


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CocheseUGA

Sugar momma.

Sly Raskal

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Matrox has some cards can accomplish this as well. Don't know how well they perform for gaming though.

fuzzy02CLS

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Ok, yeah if your current Dell supports 2 monitors then 1 additional card.
The software versions will work. But depending on you OS & your system config, may lead to problems.

Sly Raskal

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Nice! I've got a Dell 30 at work, and used to have a Dell 30 at home, but now have a 27" iMac at home instead. Would be nice to have dual 27"s though.

fuzzy02CLS

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I set this up for a home trader. 30" & 2 21"s setup vertical.

Sly Raskal

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^^^ is that the Dell 30? If so, you could have gone with 2 20" 4:3 format monitors, rotated them vertically, and the vertical screen resolutions would have matched your 30".

For a little while I ran that setup with a single 20", but no longer had the need for the 2nd monitor so ditched it.

Gs Dewd

AMD/ATI ftmfw

CocheseUGA

That looks like what I need. Or one vertical, one horizontal.

Whiskers

I have 4 laptops, does that count?

97BlackAckCL

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Souljah

Close tho!

Gs Dewd

Sure if you glue them all together

PortlandRL

Jeez...and here I am with my 13" MacBook.

fuzzy02CLS

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Don't feel too bad, I'm on a 17" CRT at home.

Sly Raskal

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Is that what gave you the inspiration for part of your username?