3 Screens

[gamerfreak]

What I Want: 3 Screens. I currently have one 24" as my main screen, I want to pick up two of these bad boys to accompany it.

Problem: I only have one video card (EVGA 8800 GTX) on a motherboard that isn't SLI compatible.

Solution: Is there a way I can rig the svideo port on my 8800 to handle the 3rd screen? Or could I pick up a cheapo PCI video card to accommodate the 3rd screen?

[Lokie]

I do run 3 screens but with SLI and a Triple Head 2 Go. Since you are running wide screens this would not work for you. You say the board is not SLI cable but can you run 2 g-cards? That would be another solution since the new drivers allow 4 monitors and SLI only supports 1 display. If you can't run a second card I would recommend a PCI card, just don't expect great things from it.

[gamerfreak]

Originally Posted by Lokie

I do run 3 screens but with SLI and a Triple Head 2 Go. Since you are running wide screens this would not work for you. You say the board is not SLI cable but can you run 2 g-cards? That would be another solution since the new drivers allow 4 monitors and SLI only supports 1 display. If you can't run a second card I would recommend a PCI card, just don't expect great things from it.

Not entirely sure. The board I have is an Intel Gigabyte P35 DS3R.

I'd probably only be gaming on a single monitor, the other two would be used for movies or web browsing.

[screwballl]

a PCI card would probably be the easiest way to go without getting into too much crap and extras

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by gamerfreak

Not entirely sure. The board I have is an Intel Gigabyte P35 DS3R.

I'd probably only be gaming on a single monitor, the other two would be used for movies or web browsing.

An additional PCI card would work wonder.
The Matrox triple head 2 go way is flawed. Since you already have a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, I believe you would want to keep it at it's native resolution. Using that resolution, you're only allowed dual head mode or in layman's terms, 2 1920x1200 monitors for a total of 3840x1200 pixels. If you want 3 monitors, the maximum supported resolution is 3840x1024 or 1280x1024 3 times.

Edit: However you could use the second DVI out on your card to display 1 or 2 monitors using a Dual Head 2 Go DVI and power your main monitor from the first output. It's still more expensive and to be honest, I'm not sure 1 card has enough power to do that. Not a Dual Head 2 Go specialist too. :P
The PCI card way seems like the easiest way since you would be only doing work and interweb on the 2 additional monitors.

[gamerfreak]

So I'll grab one of these:

Newegg.com - CHAINTECH GSP5200T2 GeForce FX 5200 128MB 64-bit DDR PCI Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

And use two monitors on my 8800 and one with that. Sound good?

[screwballl]

that should work well

[gamerfreak]

Originally Posted by screwballl

that should work well

I've asked around a little bit and I dont think so.

Cant you only output video from one interface at a time?

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by gamerfreak

I've asked around a little bit and I dont think so.

Cant you only output video from one interface at a time?

No you can run as many video cards in your system that will fit, and run them all at the same time. I have seen guys run 6 monitors with 3 video cards on one computer before.

[azianai]

evga makes a USB adaptor to attach multiple monitors, but i think the adaptor's VGA only.