Hi, im getting a game soon that supports 3D, as well as 3 and 6 monitors. So it made me curious what kind of graphics hardware is needed for 3 monitors. Can 2 graphics cards do the job? ie 1 monitor connect to 2 monitors and the other graphics card connect to a single monitor. From what i gather you need a graphics card per monitor.
Also, is this true?
[quote]Can a HDMI cable carry a 120 Hz signal/?
The answer is 'no'--with the current version of the standard (1.3) at least. Our tests did manage to push the refresh rate above 60 Hz, but only to 75 Hz with a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. That means you'll have to use DVI--and a Dual Link cable at that--if you want to get up to 120 Hz in 1920 x 1080 pixels[/quote]
If so, whats "Dual Link cable" all about? Is it a single cable or do you use a DVI cable and some other (HDMI?) seperate cable too?
Hi, im getting a game soon that supports 3D, as well as 3 and 6 monitors. So it made me curious what kind of graphics hardware is needed for 3 monitors. Can 2 graphics cards do the job? ie 1 monitor connect to 2 monitors and the other graphics card connect to a single monitor. From what i gather you need a graphics card per monitor.
Also, is this true?
Can a HDMI cable carry a 120 Hz signal/?
The answer is 'no'--with the current version of the standard (1.3) at least. Our tests did manage to push the refresh rate above 60 Hz, but only to 75 Hz with a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. That means you'll have to use DVI--and a Dual Link cable at that--if you want to get up to 120 Hz in 1920 x 1080 pixels
If so, whats "Dual Link cable" all about? Is it a single cable or do you use a DVI cable and some other (HDMI?) seperate cable too?
The current graphics cards and drivers do not support triple monitor 3D Vision, Nvidia has announced "Nvidia 3D Surround" and "Nvidia Surround" [i](the non-3D counterpart)[/i] but there are not currently any drivers supporting these new features. If I were you [i](and I am, I have three 24" non-3D capable monitors ready and waiting)[/i] I'd wait for Nvidia to release more information on this before running out and purchasing everything. I'm not 100% knowledgeable about the differences between DVI and Dual Link DVI but [url="http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html#Page03"]this[/url] provides some insight, basically DVI can only support up to 1920x1200 resolutions and Dual Link DVI can support up to 2560x1600 resolutions.
On the topic of more than 3 monitors, I remember reading somewhere that Nvidia Surround and 3D Surround will not support more than 3 monitors... This is unconfirmed data though but I couldn't see anyone wanting to game on anything more than 3 monitors unless you make the jump to 9. The good thing about 3 monitors is that you get an unobstructed view of what's directly in front of you [i](as opposed to having monitor bezels in the way)[/i], if you were to stack another row of 3 monitors on top of 3 existing monitors your "center" image would have a giant obtrusive horizontal line running through it. Gross.
For 3 monitors you will need at least 2 graphics cards, Nvidia cards can only display to 2 monitors at a time regardless of the amount of connections on the card. For example, my GTX 285's have 2 DVI outs and 1 S-Video out but I can only connect two monitors [i](either 2 DVI monitors or 1 DVI and 1 S-Video)[/i]. I currently have my center monitor connected to my "primary" card and my two side monitors connected to my "secondary" card, I can't game very well on them since current drivers don't support more than 2 monitors with SLI enabled, but I have played around with disabling SLI and using [url="http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/"]SoftTH[/url] to span my games across all three monitors... Performance varies from game to game, and I can't wait for the native SLI enabled Nvidia Surround!
The current graphics cards and drivers do not support triple monitor 3D Vision, Nvidia has announced "Nvidia 3D Surround" and "Nvidia Surround" (the non-3D counterpart) but there are not currently any drivers supporting these new features. If I were you (and I am, I have three 24" non-3D capable monitors ready and waiting) I'd wait for Nvidia to release more information on this before running out and purchasing everything. I'm not 100% knowledgeable about the differences between DVI and Dual Link DVI but this provides some insight, basically DVI can only support up to 1920x1200 resolutions and Dual Link DVI can support up to 2560x1600 resolutions.
On the topic of more than 3 monitors, I remember reading somewhere that Nvidia Surround and 3D Surround will not support more than 3 monitors... This is unconfirmed data though but I couldn't see anyone wanting to game on anything more than 3 monitors unless you make the jump to 9. The good thing about 3 monitors is that you get an unobstructed view of what's directly in front of you (as opposed to having monitor bezels in the way), if you were to stack another row of 3 monitors on top of 3 existing monitors your "center" image would have a giant obtrusive horizontal line running through it. Gross.
For 3 monitors you will need at least 2 graphics cards, Nvidia cards can only display to 2 monitors at a time regardless of the amount of connections on the card. For example, my GTX 285's have 2 DVI outs and 1 S-Video out but I can only connect two monitors (either 2 DVI monitors or 1 DVI and 1 S-Video). I currently have my center monitor connected to my "primary" card and my two side monitors connected to my "secondary" card, I can't game very well on them since current drivers don't support more than 2 monitors with SLI enabled, but I have played around with disabling SLI and using SoftTH to span my games across all three monitors... Performance varies from game to game, and I can't wait for the native SLI enabled Nvidia Surround!
Also, is this true?
[quote]Can a HDMI cable carry a 120 Hz signal/?
The answer is 'no'--with the current version of the standard (1.3) at least. Our tests did manage to push the refresh rate above 60 Hz, but only to 75 Hz with a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. That means you'll have to use DVI--and a Dual Link cable at that--if you want to get up to 120 Hz in 1920 x 1080 pixels[/quote]
If so, whats "Dual Link cable" all about? Is it a single cable or do you use a DVI cable and some other (HDMI?) seperate cable too?
Also, is this true?
If so, whats "Dual Link cable" all about? Is it a single cable or do you use a DVI cable and some other (HDMI?) seperate cable too?
On the topic of more than 3 monitors, I remember reading somewhere that Nvidia Surround and 3D Surround will not support more than 3 monitors... This is unconfirmed data though but I couldn't see anyone wanting to game on anything more than 3 monitors unless you make the jump to 9. The good thing about 3 monitors is that you get an unobstructed view of what's directly in front of you [i](as opposed to having monitor bezels in the way)[/i], if you were to stack another row of 3 monitors on top of 3 existing monitors your "center" image would have a giant obtrusive horizontal line running through it. Gross.
For 3 monitors you will need at least 2 graphics cards, Nvidia cards can only display to 2 monitors at a time regardless of the amount of connections on the card. For example, my GTX 285's have 2 DVI outs and 1 S-Video out but I can only connect two monitors [i](either 2 DVI monitors or 1 DVI and 1 S-Video)[/i]. I currently have my center monitor connected to my "primary" card and my two side monitors connected to my "secondary" card, I can't game very well on them since current drivers don't support more than 2 monitors with SLI enabled, but I have played around with disabling SLI and using [url="http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/"]SoftTH[/url] to span my games across all three monitors... Performance varies from game to game, and I can't wait for the native SLI enabled Nvidia Surround!
Hope this helps!
On the topic of more than 3 monitors, I remember reading somewhere that Nvidia Surround and 3D Surround will not support more than 3 monitors... This is unconfirmed data though but I couldn't see anyone wanting to game on anything more than 3 monitors unless you make the jump to 9. The good thing about 3 monitors is that you get an unobstructed view of what's directly in front of you (as opposed to having monitor bezels in the way), if you were to stack another row of 3 monitors on top of 3 existing monitors your "center" image would have a giant obtrusive horizontal line running through it. Gross.
For 3 monitors you will need at least 2 graphics cards, Nvidia cards can only display to 2 monitors at a time regardless of the amount of connections on the card. For example, my GTX 285's have 2 DVI outs and 1 S-Video out but I can only connect two monitors (either 2 DVI monitors or 1 DVI and 1 S-Video). I currently have my center monitor connected to my "primary" card and my two side monitors connected to my "secondary" card, I can't game very well on them since current drivers don't support more than 2 monitors with SLI enabled, but I have played around with disabling SLI and using SoftTH to span my games across all three monitors... Performance varies from game to game, and I can't wait for the native SLI enabled Nvidia Surround!
Hope this helps!