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Run Two 30" Apple Cinema Displays on a PC

Posted by timothy on from the eyestrain-city dept.

dealcatcher writes "For those blessed by the Apple gods and actually own two 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays, this guide explains how to hook two of them up to a PC. The guide includes which graphics cards will support this configuration and a step-by-step of how to get it all going."

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  1. Re:or to sum it up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I have it on inside info that he just does this to annoy grammar trolls and looking at the ammount he gets it works shockingly well ;).

  2. Re:okay by FidelCatsro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if you have the cash for two 30" monitors then im fairly sure you could find the deskspace .. Personaly my desk on which i sit right now is about 1.5M long and would have plenty of space for these to sit at the back(if i moved the clutter/ mess), It is a big desk but not much above average i would think.

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  3. Blessed or heretical by martinX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If he was truly blessed by the Apple gods he would be using a Mac. OK, a quiet one...

    This just makes him a heretic.

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  4. Re:Price by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A related question to tax your financial limits...

    If you used one of the newer motherboards capable of supporting two PCI-X cards (not in SLI mode), could you get four 30" Apple Cinema Displays out of it?

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  5. Re:The G5 is too loud? by Mattintosh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it has a graphics card in it that can drive those displays, it's going to be loud. I'd be willing to bet his PC ended up with the same problem.

  6. Challenge: Show me a mac running three 30" by ionsphere · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Two is not the ideal monitor configuration. 3 identical monitors provide a much more balanced desktop. Who wants to look at a seam in the dead center of a desktop?

    What I want to see, is a MAC running THREE 30 inch displays at full resolution. I've been trying to configure this for some time but have not found a real solution. Anyone know of a mac PCI card that can push a 30 at native resolution?