running 3 monitors?

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I want to run 3 dvi lcd monitors (1 22", 1 23", 1 24"). Since most high end graphics cards only have 2 dvi slots, how do I get the 3rd monitor going? I heard that setting two cards in SLI won't work because SLI disables the dvi ports on the second card. So do I need a dvi splitter or something? If I use a splitter, does that have any negative effects on performance or anything else?

I know there's got to be people out there that use 3 monitors, so I'm wondering what people do in regards to dvi slots?
 
I always just toss in an extra vid card, but there are devices you can slap on your video output that will make two (moderate resolution) monitors appear to be a single display to the video card.
 
Easy way is if you have a free slot to stick in another vid card. You wont want to run SLI most the time anyways. You get only one monitor in SLI mode. The two cards can be run out of SLI. With vista that can be of difering genrations/types of cards. (not sure if you can do that in XP/ other OS).

Do you need 3d or 2d? matrox has some good cards that support 3 monitors. Matrox cards are very good for color and 2d - they dont 3d very well. Not a gaming card company. They also make some boxes you can plug into your vid card and split the video to 3 monitors. I dont know what penalties apply. The last I looked the resolution wasnt that great (well for me 1280*1024 isnt great).

I was sad when they dropped out of the 3d market. The right decision, they cant keep up with the product cycles of nvidia/ati. I do remember being able to go to thier forums and have thier programmers actualy answer questions.
 
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