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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Koligman who wrote (14750)	7/20/2007 11:18:06 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I knew about DualHead2Go. I didn't know about the tripple version but its a fairly obvious extension. I don't mind opening my case, and for two monitors I could just use the video card. To go for a third one of these devices might be useful. I might go for asymmetrical dual monitors. One bigger one for anything I want a single unbroken large image of, and one smaller one where I could put other programs or (if the program supports it) menus or controls for what's on the first monitor. The downside of that is that when you do try to span the picture across monitors it doesn't work as well (at least it wouldn't look as good). Its too bad I don't know anyone (other than online) who has a three or even a two monitor setup. It would be nice to try it out before I make a decision. I could get a look at how much the wow factor, and all that screen real estate compensates for having the picture broken up in to separate monitors (even thin bezel monitors, placed in contact with each other on a multi-monitor stand still break up the picture). A few reviews "...When we looked at the TripleHead2Go Analogue Edition, games would simply maximise across the three displays, meaning things would look a little "strange" because there were some rather large bezels breaking up the display. Straight lines didn't look like straight lines, even if you had three identical displays because of this. Thus, Matrox went ahead and created a tool to help alleviate this potential downfall. The bezel management utility, which you may have seen a button for on the previous page, is a simple, intuitive and clever idea to help end users make objects spread across more than one display look right, regardless of the bezel size on your displays. It's a blue screen with a set of lines that you line up by simply moving the picture on the outer displays inwards until the lines are straight. Using bezel management actually makes for a more realistic gaming experience because objects and scenery don’t look silly when spread across two or three of the screens. The graphics card is still drawing the pixels that the TripleHead2Go “removes”, and is sending them to the TripleHead2Go. As far as it’s concerned, it’s still displaying at 3840x1024 – the TripleHead2Go is simply hiding the pixels behind the bezels..." bit-tech.net Matrox TripleHead2Go Surround Gaming (I don't know if this issue has been fixed by driver updates since last April, or been changed on ATI's new cards) "Do you own a Radeon X1000 family series of graphics card solutions? Then do not buy the T2G. You'll immediately run into weird compatibility issues. Do you have a Crossfire solution ? It's 100% a no go ... ! Do you own a Radeon X1K (1300/1600/1800/1900) product ? Then you'll be limited towards a resolution of 2400x600. Do you own a pre-X1K product (X800/X850) you'll be limited even worse in 3D towards 1920x480." guru3d.com Can Matrox's TripleHead2Go Span Fun Across Three Displays? tomshardware.com "Overall, the experience playing games with the three screens, was just fantastic. It really is a huge leap in immersiveness over a single screen. The question is whether the bezels dividing up the image would bother you too much compared to a single widescreen display. It's actually a difficult one to call. A 30in display is undoubtedly a simpler option – there would be no bezels to worry about and it's certainly going to be easier to hook up. But there's no getting away from the fact that three screens and an external box results in a mass of cabling and you'd need a lot of space to accommodate it all. The chances are though that if you have room for a 30in display you'll have room for three screens and the cabling, though it will be more work to keep things tidy. Some in the office were definite fans of the three screens for gaming, observing that you concentrate on the centre screen and most of the time don't look directly at the side screens – they are there just to fill up your peripheral vision, and they certainly do that. trustedreviews.com Multi-Monitor Tips & Tricks Guide Rev. 1.2 techarp.com