Matrox Triplehead2Go

Ok, looks nice. But...

You need 3 monitors x 300 euro
2 very good vidcards x 500 euro
the tripleheadbox for 400 euro
total: 1800 euro.

Let me think.....
Buy a 42" hd plasma/lcd for 1800 with dvi/hdmi connector or the above...

Trust me, once you've played with triple screen you won't want to go back...

Triple Head Games

There are several advantages I could see for this, though I see more of a use for buisnesses, especially Graphic arts, or those in the IT industry that do alot of work from a single work Station * I wish I had 3 monitors at work...would make life SO much easier*. DVI would be nice for sure, but both models would be useful. My LCD at work does not have the option for DVI, as my old one as home lacks it at well *my new 20" LCD however is beautiful*.

One Very important thing to remember is, most people in the world are not like us Tech junkies, who upgrade, build, or Mod our way though everything. I've run into alot of Clients still using CRT monitors, or Older LCD screens, and they only want to run multiple monitors, but don't want to do a system upgrade, or buy anything more than a little box exactly like this. May not be a winner with the Tech crowd, but it could very seriously be a winner with the General Populous!

I don't think plain old DVI has the bandwidth to handle the high resolution... You would need a dual or quad DVI output which not many cards support.

Just went to Nvidia's site a saw the following info, where did you see that SLI mode with Mutiple GPU's enabled is supported on more than one monitor?

http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_faq

How many monitors are supported with SLI in Multi-GPU mode?
When in Multi-GPU mode, SLI currently supports one monitor. When in Single-GPU mode, users have the ability to use up to 4 monitors using nView Multi-Display Technology and Windows XP Dualview.

Note: The GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB works in single card mode with Apple 30 inch HD Cinema panel. However, an issue has been discovered when running the GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB card in SLI mode with an Apple 30 inch HD Cinema display. This is due to an interaction between the GPU, the application, and the ability to scale to nonnative panel resolutions of the Apple display. All GeForce 6 series GPUs will work with Apple 23 and 20 inch HD Cinema displays in single GPU mode.

Note: The GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB works in single card mode ONLY with a limited number of widescreen displays. This is due to an interaction between the GPU, the application, and the ability to scale to nonnative panel resolutions.

The card is only outputting to 1 monitor... This is the "magic" of the thtg... It splits the signal out to 3 monitors.

Originally Posted by Enak
The card is only outputting to 1 monitor... This is the "magic" of the thtg... It splits the signal out to 3 monitors.

;)

Originally Posted by Marquee
And who has a video card that can push out 3800x1200 at 100FPS.

Emmm... why would it need to work at 100fps?

'cuase it l00kz g00d in 3dmark m8

so bit-tech was wrong :p

you cant use >1 display while the displays are in SLI

when SLI is disabled however you can use up to 4

now if you got a matrox card, u can have to 4 moniters per card i think, so u could have 8 screens :p

Edit
The amount of game support is impressive

errr, the machine we tested this on had SLI enabled... The Matrox TripleHead2Go converts the three monitors into a single signal, meaning that it's possible to run three monitors from a single DVI port when SLI is enabled.

were debating the fact that your said

If you're running SLI in your machine, you can already connect up three monitors digitally and arrange them using the NVIDIA desktop tool, so you're going to be getting better image quality without having to stump up for an extra box.

Which is not true ...

I think you've taken that quote out of context... Wil is talking about 2D work - you can disable SLI without having to reboot and use more than one monitor in 2D mode.

Originally Posted by bigz
I think you've taken that quote out of context... Wil is talking about 2D work - you can disable SLI without having to reboot and use more than one monitor in 2D mode.

that comment totally controdicts the first 7 words that are "If you're running SLI in your machine"

:(

The article is using the term "SLI" in reference to having a system capable of running in SLI i.e. two 7800GT cards...

To be honest, having run 3 displays for some time I would hook an SLI rig up with the th2g just to have the huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge taskbar. Oh, and play games :-)

Originally Posted by yahooadam
that comment totally controdicts the first 7 words that are "If you're running SLI in your machine"

See the post above mine

Originally Posted by Kameleon
Apparently, SLI is still limited to one monitor, although you can turn off SLI in Windows without rebooting and then run multi-monitor setups. Which is why the review says this is only really useful for gamers - in Windows you don't need the power of two high-end cards to run, so you can turn SLI off and have as many monitors as you want (well, 4 or 2 dual-link DVI).

Does this not explain it, yahooadam?

If you're playing a flying or racing game. How could you set the left and right monitors to be the left and right views of the cockpit(with or without the triplehead2go)?

im not sure

i dont think you could do it with the tripple head to go

but not sure, otherwise there would prolly be an option somewhere

Just wondering what is the technical reason (if there is one) for it to need to convert the signal til VGA? You would think it was possible to do this with a digital signal as well.. would you not??

anyway, I don't want a setup like that.... takes up too much space and I would never get to work...;)

You get a wide resolution... so the game's field of view is increased and you get a wider view... The side screens are not set as side views. The system sees the th2g as one single huge display.

Could it be possible at some point in the future to have one of these that uses dual DVI, which would support insane resolutions like 4800x1200, and then split that into single DVI outputs? Or does it not go up that high?

i thought matrox had a DVI version in the works

im not sure if you can get the extreme resolutions, the chip matrox is using to split up the signals may not be able to handle massive resolutions like that

Isn't DVI limited in resolution? I thought I read about it somewhere... That might be the reason that it has to be VGA to be split up.

EDIT: Not sure of the correctness, but Google gave me this:Bottom table, right column

EDIT2: And Wikipedia backs this up

Originally Posted by Glider
Isn't DVI limited in resolution? I thought I read about it somewhere... That might be the reason that it has to be VGA to be split up.

EDIT: Not sure of the correctness, but Google gave me this:Bottom table, right column

thats a single link one i think, so dual link is bigger i believe

up to like 2500x???? i believe