If you didn't SLI, the first card would operate 2 monitors (presumably the outer two) with the card running at 16x. Then one card running the middle monitor running at 8x. It's not perfect, and would be horribly ineffcient if the cards COULD SLI, but it would have equal performance on the three monitors.
Adittionally, if you gave the middle monitor more GPU time, and better performance, i don't think anyone would notice or really care. It would work well regardless of how it's configured.
You're obviously not up on what SLI cards are capable of.. The whole idea is that the cards work perfectly in concert to construct image output, much like a cell processor. Splitting the image up onto three screens has been possible since the nineties. Where have you been for the past 10 years?
It works fine. This system is probably using a display merger, so the 3 displays combine together to be one display, according to the system (i.e. 3840 * 1024). Thats the only way it will work with SLI video cards, since dual-monitor setups dont work with SLI unless you 1. disable SLI and have each card render for each monitor or 2. Get the Matrox device to combine 2 (or 3) displays into one resolution.
A few games wont be able to use that resolution effectively like RTS, which would be better with 2 graphics cards in non-sli. But for FPS, racing games, etc., it would be cool.
why wouldn't it? granted it probably wouldn't be the best performance, but with 2 8800 GTXs I don't imagine it would be hurting too much. Can probly get decent performance on Crysis with this thing.
Easy -- SLI rig so (I'm assuming AFR) one huge framebuffer, one card drives two monitors, the othe drives one monitor. The actual output from the framebuffer is separate from (and much easier than) the rendering, so no performance hit.
I was about to say that this is just a portable version of the Matrox TripleHead2Go, but bjrcboy beat me to it.
I have the TH2G with three 19" flat panels, and it's absolutely astounding to play games in a 3.75:1 aspect ratio or have a desktop in 3840 x 1024 resolution with a DVD playing in one screen, a browser in another, and OpenOffice in another. :)
I have 3 Sony P234 monitors and a Matrox Digital TripleHead2Go, 2 Radeon X1900 inside a PowerMac G5 2.5ghz Quad core and playing some games in it is AWESOME! Frame rates depend on you hardware/settings.
If I am not using the Matrox Trip2Go the the 1st video card with dual outputs are connected to monitor 1 & 2. 2nd video card is connect to monitor 3. If I am using the Trip2Go then the 3 monitors connect to the Trip2Go and the Trip2Go connects the 1st video card preferably the 1st DVI port and also to a USB port on your PC for power. Video cards are not running in SLI.
Gaming is Awesome WHEN/IF you configure the game. Most games are available for PC not the MAC and running the Trip2Go on the PC is even easier for support. And yes I did get Doom running on my MAC. It Rocks!
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huh- dual video cards to run 3 screens. someone enlighten as to how this would work well and have equal performance on all three screens?
maybe something like matrox triple head to go?
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/digital/home.php
or voodoo science.. i vote for the later
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If you didn't SLI, the first card would operate 2 monitors (presumably the outer two) with the card running at 16x. Then one card running the middle monitor running at 8x. It's not perfect, and would be horribly ineffcient if the cards COULD SLI, but it would have equal performance on the three monitors.
Adittionally, if you gave the middle monitor more GPU time, and better performance, i don't think anyone would notice or really care. It would work well regardless of how it's configured.
You're obviously not up on what SLI cards are capable of.. The whole idea is that the cards work perfectly in concert to construct image output, much like a cell processor. Splitting the image up onto three screens has been possible since the nineties. Where have you been for the past 10 years?
It works fine. This system is probably using a display merger, so the 3 displays combine together to be one display, according to the system (i.e. 3840 * 1024). Thats the only way it will work with SLI video cards, since dual-monitor setups dont work with SLI unless you 1. disable SLI and have each card render for each monitor or 2. Get the Matrox device to combine 2 (or 3) displays into one resolution.
A few games wont be able to use that resolution effectively like RTS, which would be better with 2 graphics cards in non-sli. But for FPS, racing games, etc., it would be cool.
why wouldn't it? granted it probably wouldn't be the best performance, but with 2 8800 GTXs I don't imagine it would be hurting too much. Can probly get decent performance on Crysis with this thing.
Easy -- SLI rig so (I'm assuming AFR) one huge framebuffer, one card drives two monitors, the othe drives one monitor.
The actual output from the framebuffer is separate from (and much easier than) the rendering, so no performance hit.
I was about to say that this is just a portable version of the Matrox TripleHead2Go, but bjrcboy beat me to it.
I have the TH2G with three 19" flat panels, and it's absolutely astounding to play games in a 3.75:1 aspect ratio or have a desktop in 3840 x 1024 resolution with a DVD playing in one screen, a browser in another, and OpenOffice in another. :)
I have 3 Sony P234 monitors and a Matrox Digital TripleHead2Go, 2 Radeon X1900 inside a PowerMac G5 2.5ghz Quad core and playing some games in it is AWESOME! Frame rates depend on you hardware/settings.
If I am not using the Matrox Trip2Go the the 1st video card with dual outputs are connected to monitor 1 & 2. 2nd video card is connect to monitor 3. If I am using the Trip2Go then the 3 monitors connect to the Trip2Go and the Trip2Go connects the 1st video card preferably the 1st DVI port and also to a USB port on your PC for power. Video cards are not running in SLI.
Gaming is Awesome WHEN/IF you configure the game. Most games are available for PC not the MAC and running the Trip2Go on the PC is even easier for support. And yes I did get Doom running on my MAC. It Rocks!
This link might help you out some more!
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM5Myw3LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
The LPG370TS "3 LCD Surround System" would be KICK A$$ at a LAN Party!