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Hi all,

I was wondering if it's possible, given that I have a motherboard with two PCI-E slots, if I got two 7800 cards, could I split the view across 3 monitors?

I know running in SLI will only work for one monitor, so I wondered if anyone has ever done this, or run them seperatly.

Let me know.

Thanks Smile

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject:

Try this thread: http://forums.surclaro.com/viewtopic.php?t=6449

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

I have just read that thread and the link to article in THG. Thank you for posting them. Both were written before SLI realy came out and although multimontors are limited to one in SLI mode, with two cards, 4 monitors can be connected, right? In FS9 you can utilise the undocking of windows and set up your screens to span a three (or 4, or more) monitor arc of view but this is heavy on frame rates. In horizontal span (and I have only tried this using 2 monitors so far) there much less of a frame rate hit. Hence the question above asking if you can use horizontal view accross 3 monitors utilising the 2 graphic adaptors. In VC mode and horizontal span, FS9 retains the correct aspect and there is no distortion, just a superb view of the world and a 'real as it gets' flight experience

Any thoughts?

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject:

very very simple.listen!
i have a x1600 agp
it has
-vga out
-DVI out
-TVout

i tried once the tvout and normal vga
it was a great experience to fly with two monitorss Smile

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject:

sure, you could split it 3 ways... but depending on what you do with your extra space could make it not worth while due to the frame rates being hit... I have two monitors... on one i have stuff like throttle quad, gps, radio stack or atc window, and on the other i have the main display... if you want to have a 45 degree view out the windows i wouldn't suggest it with one computer... but i can only speak from my experience... and my computer is no screaming gamer, but it does do good with the way i have it setup. hope this helps...
by the way, if you have an extra computer or two, network'em together and install WidevieW. Then you'll be able to have some peripheal views goin on Smile

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject:

More real life experience. The NVidia 7800 series cards have three outputs - DVI-1, DVI-2, and HDTV. You can run any two outputs per card at a time, even though there are three. I run 2 DVI monitors off 1 card - a 19" Samsung and a 15" HP.

Best scenario is one machine per view - if you have three views, then three machines, each running their own monitor and linked with WideFS.