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

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

  2. 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. 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.

  4. 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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