27" to 30" Gaming Monitor

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Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Ugh, I finally found a drawback to Nvidia... Been looking to go to the triple monitor route, but found out that Nvidia you have to use the same monitors throughout, where ATI doesn't! Sucks...

The MATROX TH2G can use different monitors.. So if you have a NVIDIA card and you have three different monitors.. TH2G is your answer

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Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Sweet, thanks for that!

NP, and if you do consider a TH2G make sure you get the digital version, not the analog!! Also know they got another product that merges just two screens togther.. DH2G.. I dont recomend that one.. because the monitor frame will be right down the center of your view.. now way to ignore that!

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Well GTX560 x 2 is even better .. by far. SLI when you rendering high res is the only real way to go.

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Originally Posted by cheesehawk

As far as I understood, you have to have 2x 560s to run Nvidia Surround. It's not an option, but a requirement?

I am not 100% sure.. those who know for sure correct me if I am wrong, but you need 2x vid cards because most vid cards only have 2x DVI outputs

Thus to drive 3x monitors you need 3x DVI outputs, having 2x vid cards gives you 4x DVI outputs

Some of the newere cards have an HDMI output too.. So 'if' that can be used by the NVIDIA surround than you could drive 3x monitors using 1x video card

1 hdmi
2 DVI #1
3 DVI #2

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Originally Posted by cheesehawk

As far as I understood, you have to have 2x 560s to run Nvidia Surround. It's not an option, but a requirement?

Thats correct ... I have 2 x GTX 570's that can be used in single screen SLI or surround ... I never got round to buying two extra LCD's because I'm still not sure if its the right thing for me!

I'm still not sure if my current LCD monitor is either?

My main Flight sim monitor just now is a Hanns G 27.5 LCD, its not as good as some of the newer Dell's out there, but its great bang for buck ... I was planning three of these for my two GTX 570's, but lots of research tells me that even with 1.3 VRAM per card I'd be pushing it <--- correct me if I'm wrong on this? This would be three times 1920 x 1200 = 5760 x 1200 ? Thats a heck of a resolution to be dealing with ... apparently dual Nvidea cards dont give dual vram in this scenario ... again, correct me if I'm wrong please.

What I do like about this Hanns G LCD is its old school, its 1920 x 1200 compared to a normal 1920 x 1080 ... I own a 1920 x 1080 LCD too and the 1920 x 1200 seems to give more in a flight sim, it looks much better and the extra hight is appreciated here ... I've seen this argued to death,but for me at least its better ... trouble is, nearly all company's now are going to 1920 x 1080, not because its a better gaming resolution, but because its the standard the Movie industry have adopted.

I'm now thinking of selling these cards, maybe getting a GTX580 3GB vram version and a Dell 30" for my ratio while they still make them and offer great warranty on them.

PS: I tried my newish Toshiba 32" bedroom LCD TV (that is a nice bit of kit) 1920 x 1080 60 HZt with HDMI, it looks not too bad in a flight sim, but awful in normal Windows 7 use IMHO ... I know other folks mileage differs.

I need an LCD/LED that looks good in sims and normal windows use.

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Originally Posted by cheesehawk

I think I'm going to have to switch video cards though, GTX560 seems to be a bit underpowered compared to the 570s+ when you go through Nvidia Surround.

Never tried the NVIDIA Surround.. so maybe.. Neat thing about the TH2G is it does simplify the interface to the PC.. Only one DVI cable connected to one DVI output of the video card.. The TH2G box does the rest, as in connects to the three monitors.. Basically 1 in 3 out.. So the video card does not have to do any fancy rendering to split the image across three DVI outputs across two vidoe cards.. Maybe that is why I am not seeing the stutters that others report? Any other TH2G users reading this thread please let us know what vid cards your using