Dell 2405 triple screen setup

[Aaryn015]

Hi there,

I have a Dell 2405 and I've been looking at setting up triple panels, using the 2405 in the centre.

Has anyone here done this? I am wanting to know what Dell monitors will flank it perfectly in terms of physical size. It looks like 17" will do the trick but I'm sure I found someone on another site saying he used the 20".

Another thing I need to know is the type of graphic card to use. My machine currently has an Nvidia 6600 GT. Can you get cards with three outputs?

Cheers
Aaryn

 

[Benny]

17'' in portrait comes close, 21'' 4:3 fits almost exactly. http://www.behardware.com/articles/658-1/lcd-tests-the-acer-and-dell-26-and-27.html has a good list of pixel pitch data.

Three and more outputs are available with some matrox, nividia-quadro and ati-firemv cards, most don't handle 3D too well, and will cost quite a bit.. adding another card to your setup would be more cost efficient.

 

[chal2les]

I used two 17 inch with my 2405fpw and it worked great.

 

[Aaryn015]

Cheers for the info fellas. I'll look into the card side of things now.

Charles, PM sent.

Aaron