3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

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3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby Fly2e » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:19 am

Came across this,
check it out!!

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/gxm.cfm
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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby JBaymore » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:46 am

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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby Fly2e » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:37 pm

ooopps!  :P

I called a dealer and they said it will be going for around $300 as the 2 monitor hub goes for around $150.
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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby TacitBlue » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:53 pm

Ah, thanks for making that call. I had been wondering what this thing would cost. I might go for the two-monitor one some day.
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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby chuckcrc » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:40 am

Yeah this unit looks good !    ;D

I can't wait for someone from the flight sim world to write a detailed review on it.

I think there may be a problem with the 2 d cockpit view being streched across the displays,  although the 3d view is ok. This happens now with the Nvidia Nview , but I don't know if there is a fix for it.

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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby TacitBlue » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:32 pm

The only real "fix" for that is to build a custom panel that's made to take advantage of two screens. I did it once, but my second monitor is smaller than my main, so I did away with the dual monitor setup.
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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby kipman725 » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:15 pm

three monitors would be alot better than two as the center of the screen is usualy the focus of the action and if you have two monitors the border gets in the way.  I had to switch back to one monitor because two monitors was causing me migranes I think because of the border.
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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby JBaymore » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:28 pm

[quote]three monitors would be alot better than two as the center of the screen is usualy the focus of the action and if you have two monitors the border gets in the way.
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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby JBaymore » Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:35 pm

Here's another option in the multi monitor / projector possibilities:

http://www.xkeys.com/viewport.php?PHPSESSID=923281b58a9b292892e6b5adfbb2fd6f



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Re: 3 Monitors the "Easy" way!

Postby machineman9 » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:04 am

you could just buy the mirror screen they use on the training simulators for around
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