How do you use more then 2 monitors on a single machine?

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12-05-2008, 04:55 AM
Clovis

How do you use more then 2 monitors on a single machine?

Hi everyone,

My video card (8800 GTS) has dual DVI ports which allows me to easily use a dual monitor set up which I love but if I wanted to use say three or four monitors how can I do that? Would I have to get another 8800 GTS and run SLI (with a total of 4 ports) or is there some software that can be used in conjuction with hardware?

Thanks,

-Clovis
12-05-2008, 05:33 AM
Kaynin

I believe it is as simple as getting another, preferably identical, videocard. But without running them in SLI.

I've no personal experience with this but I've read on the forum it can decrease performance however. And PiP doesn't like it either I believe.
12-05-2008, 07:02 AM
Zal

I'm currently using 2 monitors, but i do believe it's as simple as just buying another identical graphics card and plugging in 2 more.

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I've no personal experience with this but I've read on the forum it can decrease performance however.

I've also heard this. Not on these forums though.
12-05-2008, 09:19 AM
zanthor

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Originally Posted by 'Kaynin',index.php?page=Thread&postID=155349#post1 55349

I've no personal experience with this but I've read on the forum it can decrease performance however. And PiP doesn't like it either I believe.

This depends a lot on your OS and how you start the game. If you start WoW using that video card it should run fine, if you start wow using the OTHER video card and drag it over, then it goes into software rendering.
12-05-2008, 09:25 AM
Tynk

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/
12-05-2008, 11:00 AM
SlayerX

Depends on the OS. I can't speak for vista, but with windows xp. I have a video card with two ports. I have two 22 inch pluged into them and I use set them to vertical span in nvidia settings. This basically extends your desktop to both screens, without lag and all. It makes it one huge monitor and as long as you use some sort of maximizer ie innerspaces/keyclone etc. You can set each instance of wow or whatnot to fit the screen in any way you want.

For example i have one wow normally full screen on one screen and then i have the other 4 I run split up on the 2nd.
12-05-2008, 11:29 AM
zanthor

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Originally Posted by 'SlayerX',index.php?page=Thread&postID=155391#post 155391

Depends on the OS. I can't speak for vista, but with windows xp. I have a video card with two ports. I have two 22 inch pluged into them and I use set them to vertical span in nvidia settings. This basically extends your desktop to both screens, without lag and all. It makes it one huge monitor and as long as you use some sort of maximizer ie innerspaces/keyclone etc. You can set each instance of wow or whatnot to fit the screen in any way you want.

For example i have one wow normally full screen on one screen and then i have the other 4 I run split up on the 2nd.

If you read the OP's post, he has dual monitor setup which he loves... he wants Three or Four.

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Originally Posted by 'Clovis',index.php?page=Thread&postID=155342#post1 55342

Hi everyone,

My video card (8800 GTS) has dual DVI ports which allows me to easily use a dual monitor set up which I love but if I wanted to use say three or four monitors how can I do that? Would I have to get another 8800 GTS and run SLI (with a total of 4 ports) or is there some software that can be used in conjuction with hardware?

Thanks,

-Clovis
12-05-2008, 03:40 PM
Maxion

Just make sure you dont SLI them, because SLI is made to run one screen with multiple video cards, not the other way around.