Multiple Monitors - 3 separate video cards... anyone?
 

My main systems speed is starting to bug me now.

It's a P4 1.4, 1gig rambus ram, a Geforce 2MX (64 megs I think) & two extra Matrox Millenium II cards with 16 megs ram each.

It's connected to 3 big flat panel LCD's.


My main dislike with this system is when I drag a screen from one LCD to another, it takes like 1/2 to 1 second to display on the new screen.

This must be something with the matrox cards. But it gives me the feeling that the system is slow or bogged down, when I know it isn't.


I would get a dual head or quad head card, in fact I tried once, and I had no-solution hardware conflicts on this system... I would rather run individual cards anyway actually.

Problem is you only get one AGP slot.. so then you have to go find 2 more really good PCI cards. And I *never* do any 3D gaming on this sytem. I have another box for that.


I don't suppose anyone runs a system like this... 3 separate video cards?

Nope,

But you can get the Asus Geforce FX 5600, has dual DVI outpus and then throw in a Second PCI/DVI vid card.

Works flawless !

Running 3 Dell 19" Flatpanels..

And if you're not running all DVI outputs, I highly recommend you switch. The increase in clarity is impressive.

What I've also found is get 2 PCI video cards that come with the SGI 550i & 2 widescreen flatpannels. Use that, thats 3 monitors in two meant for video and graphics editing. Not too expencive anymore.

post a pic of your setup