Graphics cards
With the democratization and progression of LCD monitors, it’s nothing to be impressed in front of a monitor like the Viewsonic VX2835WM Full HD 28 inch LCD which offers a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. Or the Apple Cinema Display 30 inch with its 2560 x 1600 pixels. These are to be dreamed for. But with a prohibitive price of 2,500 dollars for the Apple monitor and 1,400 dollars for the Viewsonic one, these will be out of reach to most of us. But what would you say about tripling your viewing space?
With the democratization and progression of LCD monitors, it’s nothing to be impressed in front of a monitor like the Viewsonic VX2835WM Full HD 28 inch LCD which offers a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. Or the Apple Cinema Display 30 inch with its 2560 x 1600 pixels. These are to be dreamed for. But with a prohibitive price of $2500 for the Apple monitor and $1400 for the Viewsonic one, these will be out of reach to most of us. But what would you say about tripling your viewing space with the Matrox TripleHead2Ho display?
The multi-display is a view that is today very difficult to go past
Even if a number of LCD monitors exist in monstrous sizes and resolutions, they are unfortunately not yet accessible from a financial point of view. But after having seen the comfort that these “extreme” monitors offer, we are certainly in admiration. Video cards these days in a lot of cases offer two VGAI/DVI outputs, and so as to not be too frustrated, there is the possibility of using multiple monitors on Windows and Linux operating systems. The end result is a system that is nice to use which offers good comfort, especially when it comes to multitasking.
Simply, once you have started using a bi-screen, it is very difficult to go back to a simple display. Although, everything is not perfect as the bi-screen only manages 2D under windows and Linux. Even using this with a bi-GPU system (Crossfire / SLI), an expensive solution which is also electricity hungry, you are able to manage a display spread over a maximum of four screens although it will still only be displayed in 2D. For 3D management, things get more complicated and you will have to look to the solutions on offer from MATROX.
Some of the older readers will certainly remember the Matrox 3D Parthelia card which allowed you to connect up to three monitors so that you could have wide panoramic views in your games. This solution had some serious limitations though in terms of performance in the games. The TripleHead2Go that we will be looking at today pushes these limits and allows you to use the video card or multi-GPU system of your choice.
The multi-display is a view that is today very difficult to go past
Even if a number of LCD monitors exist in monstrous sizes and resolutions, they are unfortunately not yet accessible from a financial point of view. But after having seen the comfort that these “extreme” monitors offer, we are certainly in admiration. Video cards these days in a lot of cases offer two VGAI/DVI outputs, and so as to not be too frustrated, there is the possibility of using multiple monitors on Windows and Linux operating systems. The end result is a system that is nice to use which offers good comfort, especially when it comes to multitasking.
Simply, once you have started using a bi-screen, it is very difficult to go back to a simple display. Although, everything is not perfect as the bi-screen only manages 2D under windows and Linux. Even using this with a bi-GPU system (Crossfire / SLI), an expensive solution which is also electricity hungry, you are able to manage a display spread over a maximum of four screens although it will still only be displayed in 2D. For 3D management, things get more complicated and you will have to look to the solutions on offer from MATROX.Some of the older readers will certainly remember the Matrox 3D Parthelia card which allowed you to connect up to three monitors so that you could have wide panoramic views in your games. This solution had some serious limitations though in terms of performance in the games. The TripleHead2Go that we will be looking at today pushes these limits and allows you to use the video card or multi-GPU system of your choice.
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