2408WFP and 2 other screens

[JackyBoy]

Hi there

I was going to get the dell ultrasharp 24 next monday, but i was wondering, is there any way of connecting 2 other monitors with it? I've got a 8800Ultra so obvisouly only 2 outputs, but is there splitters you can get?

The other thing i was thinking of getting is one of those EVGA UV12 devices, but i havent really seen any reviews or anywhere you can buy them for that matter.

Any advice welcome.

Oh and before anyone asks why i want 3 screens, it's jsut becuase i've got 2 now and i want to be greedy

 

[Rastalovich]

Digital stuff for this sort of effort is pretty expense from what I remember.

Vga stuff isn`t that bad. There are the matrox options, normally 2 outputs per card, or I think 1 output and a breakout that`ll do many.

Don`t know a cheap way of doing it.

Had a quick look in the stores for some cards and came up with this 4 display one (I doubt u`d find a 3 display logically) http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=135113

Now the thing is, I`m sure this pci card just works as a regular gfxcard with 4 outputs, each can be independant.

What I would want personally is to take my spanking gfxcard (nvidia/ati) and have the pci card spread it over 3 displays.

I`m sure there`s a dual or spanned way of doing it with 2 regular gfx cards, but the drawback here is that firstly ur not using the card in single display mode, which is slower, and the drivers aren`t independant per output, afaik.

I`d search the forum also, cos some1 posted a grandprix racing setup on here with 3x 19" 4:3/5:4 monitors which was neat - I`d copy them.

 

[JackyBoy]

Well i had a little look for that thread you said about but couldn't find it i'll have a better look at home. But i will probably get the EVGA box as its USB and only £50 rather than £400!

Just wondered if anyone had any experience doing it really. I will let you know how it goes once i buy it

 

[Ham]

http://www.cdlmicro.co.uk/html/show_product.php/pid/100

Grab two of them and you can have 4 screens?

 

[JackyBoy]

haha, 4, but then it wouldn't be symmetrical! but that does look like a cheap answer to my problem, only thing is, does that then read it as 2 seperate monitors or just mirror one image onto both screens?

 

[JackyBoy]

Well my new screen came today and it's AMAZING! compared to the 17" next to it, it's just incredible, forget having the 2 17" sitting beside it, im just going to buy another 24"!

Yay part of the 24" club! lol

2408WFP FTW

 

[FarFarAway]

I have a 2405FPW for sale if you want it??

Dell 24" awesomeness tbh

 

[JackyBoy]

haha, cheers but they have to look exactly the same im picky like that, so im just going to get the E2408WFP to go with it lol