Triple Headed Desktop Display for Fast 3D Apps?

Posted by Cliff on Friday June 10, 2005 @09:45AM from the thee-heads-are-better-than-two dept.

Once Was SGI Customer asks: "My group was once a big SGI user. We run a Powerwall display center with 3 large screens, currently driven by an SGI Onyx Infinite Reality (IR) to provide a single desktop with 3D acceleration across all screens. The Onyx is now old and very slow compared to our Nvidia cards, that do a great job at TwinView display, but not 'TripleView'. I'd like to know if there are any PC manufacturers who make a card that can do what the IR can do (in terms of a single desktop across 3D displays with fast 3D acceleration), but for Windows and Red Hat (now Fedora Core) Linux?"

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Twin video cards by Stone+Rhino · 2005-06-10 09:58 · Score: 2, Insightful

Now that motherboards are supporting multiple video cards, wouldn't it just make more sense to put in two good dualhead cards, instead of struggling to find a single triple head card?

Just get a good PCI Express-based machine, and fit it with twin dualheads. You can even add a fourth monitor if you want it.

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