Triple monitor question

[HellboundIRL]

Hi,

I am planning on doing a triple monitor setup for my wife and I would like to know if its possible to use a 280GTX and a 8800GTS together on a crossfire motherboard, the 280GTX for the main and secondary and the 8800 for the third monitor.

Does anyone have any experience of this working out or is it destined to fail?

Cheers.

[shihchiun]

Should work fine, just don't try and use Crossfire.

[HellboundIRL]

Should work fine, just don't try and use Crossfire.

I won't :p

Thanks, just needed a little input before I go ahead with it.

[chconline Veteran]

There will be no problem at all. I would suggest using a cheaper/lower powered card for decreased power consumption, heat, and noise though :p

[HellboundIRL]

Are there any limitations on what can be run on the third monitor powered by my secondary graphics card? Would there be any issues with 3d applications?

I'm just curious how the well the two graphics cards will work together...

[chconline Veteran]

As long as they are the same brand, it should be OK. I know people got an ATI graphics card to work with a secondary NVIDIA but things may get a bit more complicated than you want.

Also 3D apps such as games will only launch on your main monitor, so it should have no effect.

[Riffz]

I run triple monitors on an 8800gtx and a 8600gt. I had horrible freezing and bsod issues using an ati card with my 8800gtx for the third monitor. As mentioned full screen 3d games launch on your primary display, but I have had no problems running guildwars in a window, and switching it over to the other monitors on the fly... just expect to take a performance hit on the slower card.

[HellboundIRL]

I run triple monitors on an 8800gtx and a 8600gt. I had horrible freezing and bsod issues using an ati card with my 8800gtx for the third monitor. As mentioned full screen 3d games launch on your primary display, but I have had no problems running guildwars in a window, and switching it over to the other monitors on the fly... just expect to take a performance hit on the slower card.

Good, just what I was wanting to hear, cheers for that :D .

The only game I'll be switching around will be WoW, so nothing too heavy.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

You may get a few BSOD's, because of the driver issue. Your best choice would be to get a matching video card

[HellboundIRL]

At the moment they use the same driver, so hopefully that won't give me too many headaches...

I will probably do that to tidy things up sometime in the near future.

[The_Observer]

I say get the Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital easy to setup and looks great!