I with the Parhelia didn't suck (picture inside)

[Lonely Raven]

http://www.opelblitz.net/~lonelyraven/TriSGI.jpg

I finally got off my ass and assembled my tripple monitor setup.

Besides needing a bigger desk, I still need to find some DVI
to VGA adapters, and some higher quality cables.

The setup as it is today is 21" SGI (Modded Trinitron tube)
24" Widescreen SGI (again Modded Trinitron Flat Tube) and
a matching 21" on the right side as well.

Each of these monitors has two VGA inputs. So I could in theory
have these setup almost like a KVM switch with two machines
per monitor and have the ultimate in clarity.

But the way I've decided to set this up, unless I can find a
quality gameable 3 output video setup:

The middle monitor (24" Widescreen) and the 21" on the right
are going to be Primary and Secondary on my ATI 9800 Pro,
directly for quality and clarity.
Then the 21" on the left is going to be hooked up to my 8 Port
KVM which has my file server, my studio recording machine,
my smoothwall router, and my backup gamer. I think I might still
have one other machine to put on that one...but I'm not sure.

As I said, it's too bad the Parhelia sucked...

[SonicB]

Nice Setup .:thup: to do that do you have 2 video cards in one machine ? Like the primary being the AGP card and another pci card ?

[SonicB]

duh I just realized I can use both the DVI out and VGA out on my video card :rolleyes: ignore last question.

[Lonely Raven]

As I said, it's not setup yet, and I'm planning on running two
monitors on one card, and the third monitor on my KVM.

[YviE]

Nice monitors, I'd like to have one just for watching movies!

[SonicB]

You looking for adapters? I found a few on ebay that I bought for 4.95 USD not including shipping ..

[Freezermug]

geeze how much do those weigh? when you get a desk that can fit all that check its weight threshold. craaaack BOOOM. 300 pounds of monitors sitting on th floor.

[Giblet Plus!]

The parhelia doesn't suck that bad. It's kinda like a geforce 3. I played flight simulator 2002 on a parhelia machine with 3 LCDs at an airshow once. :)

[Lonely Raven]

Yeah, but I'm almost three times faster then a GeForce 3 right
now with my 9800 Pro, and I use AA with a typical resolution of
1600X1200 for gaming. I need decent power to keep up that
quality of video.

Now if more games supported mulit-monitors!!!

[FunkDaMonkMan]

wow, that is a great setup.

My friends would bow down. They already gasp the first time they see me move from one monitor to another.

[Lonely Raven]

I just got my video adapter and my new Radion 9800.
I'm struggling with getting Windows to accept both monitors,
and when it does it mixes up which is primary and which is
secondary, and then on top of all that, it mixed up which is the
24" and which is the 21".

Friggen Windows. (sigh)

The drivers seem to be handling it all Ok though!

Now to do some benchmarks!!

[CrashOveride]

I have 3 monitors.

Ill get a pic somtime, its far more ghetto than your setup though.

[Lonely Raven]

I'm not surprised. My setup costed me $1000 in monitors alone.

It's more for show right now. I'm thinking about selling one or two
of them to purchase another 20" Dell LCD and just go dual LCD.

The problem then is I need to find an ATI card that supports dual DVI.

[SonicB]

Just so happens I was looking at video cards and couldn't find a ATI with dual DVI . But I did find a GF FX card with dual DVI outputs.

Found It Here (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=14-121-153)

I don't know if ATI make a card with dual DVI out :-/

[Lonely Raven]

Yeah, I saw that too. Believe it or not, they also have a 5200 with
VGA and DVI that's PCI!!!

But I'd hate to regress from a 9800 Pro to a 5600. I'd at least need
to hook up with a 5900.

So I figure unless something magical happens, I'm just going to
hang with these SGI CRTs and my 9800 Pro and see what the
PCI express brings to the table!!