found my monitor

[thePh@r@oh]

ok this company was revealed to me in this thread
im digging these monitors and the thing is that they are LCD so they wont have the image burn problems i heard about with plasma displays. http://www.go-l.com/monitors/cineram...ture/index.htm do these things REQUIRE the matrox parhelia card? cause i want to use this thing for gaming.

[tony_j15]

No, it doesnt require the card.

[thePh@r@oh]

awesome
thats excellent news.

[darrelld]

I would think you would need the Matrox card to take advantage of the surround gaming. I use multiple monitors on my system and can't play games across all of them because the games themselves don't support those kinds of resolutions. I may be wrong here, but I would think it would be the same for these monitors.

[John Prophet]

how does that work? what would it do with a regular desktop??

Does it just function as a 3 monitor setup would? I guess thats it.

So I could have 3 full size windows open at once....newegg, compgeeks and pricewatch etc.

JP

[thePh@r@oh]

someones gotta have a little more clarity some say it will work without other say i have to have the parhelia.

[darrelld]

All this is is three or more monitors in an attractive package. That said, your typical pc with your typical Nvidia or ATI video card will not run them. The cheapest possibility would be to have an AGP card with dual monitor support, and a PCI card to run the third. You would be able to take advantage of all the desktop benenfits of having 3 monitors, but you would only game on one of them.
There are several manufacturers that offer video cards capable of supporting three or four monitors, I'm sure they are expensive. As far as I know the Matrox card is the only one capable of the surround gaming.

Parhelia 256MB also supports Matrox's unique Surround Design—the only triple-head accelerated 3D environment from a single AGP graphics solution

Here it is from Matrox, they are the only ones that can do the gaming on three monitors.
There are, however many possibilities for running 3 monitors without the multi monitor game support.

[darrelld]

If you were to use this in Linux, you could get your game across multible monitors as I have done here
This probably wasn't the type of gaming you had in mind, LOL

[DallasDon]

Ok, here's the Redneck version. Thiis is an Enpower Series comp, MSI 6378 mobo, on board video, Duron 1 gig and 512mb Kingston Value ram.

Standard Codegen 300 w power supply

Pny Verto PCI card with dual VGA out

The Nvidia Desktop manager software that came with the card is programmable to extend the destktop over three monitors, open wndows , prevent spannig or allow spanning, etc.

Different profiles can be loaded for particular applications: gaming, workstation, photo edit, etc.

My main application is 2d gaming (internet poker) and watching lost episodes of columbo.

Seperate windows for surfing forums, while searching google, or copying pics , is also a breeze.

Wife took the twin to the 19 in, ergo this is a 17 inch auction viewsonic, 19 in Sam's Club Samtron, and 10 year old Toshiba 21 in monitor/tv/game port.

Currently on three different resolutions



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[darrelld]

You're running 3 monitors on one dual VGA card?How do you do that? Nevermind, I didn't see the onboard video part.