Multi Display Question HydraVision

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I tried in the Video Card section to no avail, perhaps someone here has tried it?

Multi Display Question HydraVision
Yup still looking for the best set up.

Anyhow seems I will have get a couple satellite cards. I need to drive 6 monitors, I am wondering how well does Hydravision work with this set up. And what can you guys recommend being the cheapest and least power hungry solution, see sig, I only have 600 Watts PSU to work with, and its Epsilon, also its powering my H2O as it is. Will hydravision let me expand and move around the desktop side to side, up and down etc. I am basically giving up on PC gaming, as theres no way to play cheaply on this set up, at least not for now, nor any incentive, maybe when the next gen cards arrive.

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Anyhow can I go from 1 to 4 by bringing my mouse down, etc? And then if I got to the side it goes to 5 then from 5 I go up to will go to 2. Hydravision works great on my dual Monitor set up, wondering if anyone also did this with many monitors, I believe it could keep going to the side, but I rather go up and down if possible.

Anyhow any recommendations on which cards? I use 3DS sometimes, but not much, though I prefer if the card can do opengl, or handle the viewpoint. I have 1 PCI slot free and 1 PCIE slot free. I would like the cheapest possible solution, with all DVI going into the monitors.
 
Basically, you just drag the monitors icons around in the drivers (also can be found in windows display properties) to get them positioned as you would want the mouse to move.

Depending on the video card you have...you may be able to use all 6 monitors from one video card. To do this you would need a video card with 2 DVI outputs and 2 Matrox TripleHead2Go adapters. Each TH2G would power a row of 3 monitors. It work by telling your video card that it is a monitor thats REALLY wide. The adapter then splits the image into normal resolutions and send each section to the appropriate monitor. From what I hear, you can game on 3 monitors using this method (newer games).

Update: I used to run a crossfire setup, so I know the drivers can handle more than 2 (4 in my case).
 
I have an X1800XT, though I prefer not to use the triples, as I'd eventually like all of them to output 1080P resolution,

I know about the monitor dragging, I did it on my dual set up right now.

I am buying a x1650Pro 2 dvi
and a x1300 2 dvi

I am pretty sure hydravision can scale to a bajillion monitors, at least thats how commercial aps use it. I am open to use other software if need be, but just wondering

with the 3 video cards, will I be set? Then just config it? I am sure it can handle 4 also, and most likely 8, as the 4 DVI 3870x2 can be crossfiredx.

ps. Hydravision I am talking about is the built in capability in CCC, not the actual stand alone software :).
 
Yeah, with 3 of the same brand video cards you should be gold. Dont forget that multiple monitors is native to XP & Vista so I don't forsee any issues.
 
Right, sounds good, ok last and final questions, can they be at different resolutions? 4 of them will be at 1440x900 and 2 1920x1200
The 2 middle are at 1920, the rest 1440.

Since you ran that quad set up how was your screen res. IE mine right now is at 2880x900, wondering with different resolutions, how would it work, and if it would work.
 
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