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Matrox TripleHead Triples Your Viewing Pleasure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-real-estate dept.

mikemuch writes "Matrox brings one of the coolest features of its Parhelia graphics card--the ability to drive three monitors--to any setup through a little VGA box. ExtremeTech has a review of the Matrox TripleHead2Go up. The review is pretty positive, the immersion in games and extra productivity area are a definite boon, but there are drawbacks: First of all, three hi-res monitors will set you back some serious dough, also there are some compatibility issues with ATI GPUs, and you may get a little vertigo while surrounded by your WoW world."

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  1. Perfect for by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Funny
    Flight simulators. Mmm. Surround vision.

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    1. Re:Perfect for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny



      its not great if you use linux, as the support is genarally attrotious,

      You'd think this thing would be perfect for linux gaming. You could run each of the three available games simultaneously.

    2. Re:Perfect for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      There are 2 more versions of Tux Racer? Links please.

  2. So to come back to reality... by IflyRC · · Score: 4, Funny

    and you may get a little vertigo while surrounded by your WoW world.

    WoW is addictive enough, something like this will send people over the deep end.

    1. Re:So to come back to reality... by Blue0ctane · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is huge. It might inspire a new generation of fat WoW nerds to become even fatter and more addicted.

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  3. Whoa.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slow down there Matrox..... I'd be happy to just get some SingleHead

    1. Re:Whoa.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Think single head is rare, try getting married head ...

  4. I can save you some dough... by argStyopa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Change screen setting to letterbox.
    FOV=120
    Sit Really Close.

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  5. Re:How many games support these resolutions? by turtleAJ · · Score: 1, Funny

    How many games actually support these resolutions: 1920x480, 2400x600, and 3072x768?

    Duke Nukem Forever you insensitive clod!!!

  6. Productivity Problem by VorpalRodent · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was looking at the website, and it clearly depicts how Windows handles this. Windows believes that you have a single monitor that is three times as wide. The problem with this is that if I maximize a windowed application, it spans three monitors. It even shows a picture of this happening in their little demo advertisement.

    This totally defeats the purpose for productivity type things. I want to be able to maximize things onto a single monitor. I don't want to take the extra step of properly sizing something to fill a third of my "monitor".

    Do they provide a means to trick Windows into artificially separating the monitor? Perhaps they could team up with Sony and provide a rootkit that does it for me that I can never remove, so that when I get rid of this, I only ever maximize things to one-third of my screen. That would be a hoot.

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  7. Ob-Simpsons Quote by Otto · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Increase my killing power, eh?"

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  8. Ribbed for her pleasure by Unski · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Matrox TripleHead Triples Your Viewing Pleasure"

    I'm sorry but the headline reads like a condom advertisement. Mind you, I do have the tiny puerile mind of an adolescent.

  9. /nitpick on by fohat · · Score: 1, Funny


    World of Warcraft running on multiple monitors is not supported and I have yet to see it done.

    Allthough I heard Chuck Norris once did it.

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  10. Its about time! by stinerman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally I can build the computer system from Swordfish!

  11. Or even better... by temojen · · Score: 2, Funny

    3 times the frozen bubbles!!!1!



    w00t!

  12. Re:cool but... by Grishnakh · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd really like to see more games support multiple monitors. I have a bunch that dont and only support up to 1280x1024.

    That's because resolution isn't important; only FPS and polygon counts are. That's why you should always run your games in 640x480, so you can get the most frames-per-second.

  13. awww yeah by sentientbrendan · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Matrox TripleHead Triples Your Viewing Pleasure
    Awesome, but... when did Matrox expand into the prostitution business?