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2009/11/25 13:26:09 (permalink)
I am running 2 EVGA GTX275's is SLI on a EVGA 780i FTW board. I would like to have a total of 3 x 24" monitors in order to play my flight similator games or Arma2 properly with my new Tracker IR setup. Baiscly with 3 monitors together I want it to act as one big wide screen.

I am told that I need a TRIPLEHEAD2GO device from Matrox, which is $300.00. My question is, can i do this without the TRIPLEHEAD2GO device by using my 2 video cards in SLI? After all, I do have a total of 4 DVI outputs between the 2 cards. If it works, it may only give me 3 individual monitors instead of combining all 3 monitors into 1 big wide monitor. 

Apperantly this TRIPLEHEAD2GO device tricks the video card into thinking that you only have 1 really big wide screen monitor. But cant I do this without the $300.00 TRIPLEHEAD2GO device?. If not, maybe I need 3 video cards in SLI for it to work. I mean if I am going to spend $300.00, i would rather spend it on a 3rd video card, if its possiable to do with 3 cards that is. I dont know, please help.
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    MADOGRE
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    Re:TripleHead2Go? 2009/11/25 14:51:53 (permalink)
    I you can but you cant use SLI.
    so you have 2 plugged into card #1 and 1 plugged into card #2 or vice versa.
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    Re:TripleHead2Go? 2009/11/25 16:57:23 (permalink)
    There is a program named softTH which can do some of these functions in software, afaik it is slower than a triplehead 2 go.  Also, the screens in the TH2G need to support a wierd refresh, so make sure your monitor is on thier compatibility list.
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    Re:TripleHead2Go? 2009/11/25 19:44:23 (permalink)
    Great! thanks alot for the info. I will post back with results if compatiable that is. I hope it is anyways, because I just bought 2  24"ASUS VW246H lcd wide screen monitors to go with my existing Acer 24" G24 which all have the 2ms response time. but I better be prepared to buy this TRIPLEHEAD2GO in the future, because it looks like there is alot of issues with this software and I have the 64bit Windows 7 too.
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    Re:TripleHead2Go? 2009/11/25 21:25:49 (permalink)
    well if it helps i just sold a th2go and i am using asus vw224u and it all worked very good . so good luck!

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    Re:TripleHead2Go? 2009/11/26 09:23:41 (permalink)
    So what your saying is that your NOT using the TripleHead2go with your 3 moitors because you sold it? So what are you using to link all 3 monitors then?

    WOW thats one sweet rig you have thee man, awsome setup too!!
    post edited by dudemaar - 2009/11/26 09:45:41
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    Re:TripleHead2Go? 2009/11/26 17:50:34 (permalink)
    i am in the process of getting  a 5970 card . i sold both my gtx 295 and my th20go. my main plan is to use the 5970 with my three monitors and then i am going to get a gtx 250 for my physics , all in all it will a little more stable i think . also i ll be running win 7 when i get my card .!

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    Re:TripleHead2Go? 2009/12/01 09:27:55 (permalink)
    ty
    post edited by dudemaar - 2010/04/27 12:05:37
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