4 Monitors?

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gpern83

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Hello,

Currently I have 3 19" flat panels running at 1280x1024 each. I just purchased a 47" 1080p LCD that I would also like to use. My question is.. How many video cards will I need, in order to share my desktop on the 3 19s, and display the full desktop on the 47? Will the same setup also allow me to share the desktop between all 4 monitors? Is an HDCP video card required to display on TVs?
 
You need 2 video cards.

Dont know what you mean by share desktop though. All your monitors are one huge desktop unless you get something like Ultramon.
 
For a one video card solution, perhaps the matrox tripple head adaptor would work. You should be able to plug the 3 19's into that and the remaining monitor into the other port on the video card.
 
I should have gone into a little more detail on what I have. I already have 2 video cards, each with dual DVI. They are GeForce 6600s. From what I can see in the settings, I am only able to share the desktop across the monitors, no dedicate one as a full screen. Any ideas?
 
I don't have SLI, but it sounds like you want Dual-View to be set on each card. Not sure if you can do that, but it allows you to have two monitors with different resolutions (A 19" @ 1280x1024 and 15" @ 1024x768 in my case). Look in the nvidia menu thing, click on nView Display Settings and see if you can find an option that you like.
 
There are Matrox dual heads you can get, but they are going to be FireGLs. If you're thinking of gaming, they wouldn't be of much use. Otherwise, they should be able to handle regular applications just fine.
 
Ah, it reminds me of my days as a hacker turned whitehat. This US government shadow soldier held my child hostage so I wouldwrite a virus to steal money from a bank. (By write I mean drag and drop cubes into a larger cube).

I had SIX monitors, and I was king pimp. You may have heard of the docu-drama some movie studio produced: "Codeword: Swordfish" or something like that.
 
I remember setting up 6 monitors. Tricky, but the marquee screensaver afterwards just made it all worth it. :cool:
 
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