Hey Guys,
Nice area, been looking for somewhere to find more info about RTIII.
I wanted to share some information in case anyone is interested. Took me a while to find it all, figured someone might benefit. I had one 21" monitor with RTIII setup, but kept running out of screen real estate. I'm not made of money, so I was trying to find a way to get multiple monitor support easily without spending a fortune ($250 for the G400 card, +800 each for 21" monitors), plus I wanted more than 2 monitors. What I ended up doing was buying 2 Matrox Millenium cards off of Ebay for about $18 each (had two in the closet in old computers). Then I found a place called namebrandcomputer.com that sells off-lease monitors, computers etc (I'm not associated with them in any way). I bought two Gateway Vivitron 21" monitors for $329 each (like the one I had, made in 1996). They had other brands, but I bought what I knew. I installed Win2000 on one of my computers, put in the cards and now have 3-21" monitors and 1-9" inch (small I know, but for email) and got the whole setup (cards and monitors) for under $800. I have IRC on half of one monitor and RTIII spread across the other 2 1/2 monitors, with email hovering above on the 9". I am able to display a lot of info with all of this real estate, but it is hard to keep an eye on the whole screen(s). Kinda like sitting in the front row at a movie <g>. Well, I hope this helps somebody who is in a similar situation.
Michael Scott |
