Is there a nvidia equivalent to eyefinity? What's the nvidia solution to 3 monitors? Will games designed for eyefinity like Dirt2 play nice with any nvidia solution? Only recently getting interested in this multi-monitor malarkey, so I'm a dry sponge craving info to soak up
nVidia have a system in place that supports up to 8 monitors using SLI, called Mosaic. Problem is, currently it's a Quadro exclusive architecture. You can bet your ass that nVidia are working on bringing it to their GeForce GPUs though. Also, there was this at the beginning of the year.
That is true. Noone said it was perfect. I would wait a while and see if nVidia bring Mosaic to the GeForce range.
Of course there is always the option of Triple Head 2 Go. It's an external unit and supports up to 3x 1680 x 1050. Buy 2 of them and can have upto 6 monitors. Advantage of TH2G is you can use any card with it. Of course it costs as much as the card but you don't need any special monitors to use it. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/
you are limited with resolutions with TH2Go - it uses a dual link DVI which can only provide for 3x(1650x1050) i believe.
They do a 3D surround system not cheap though. http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=190250&highlight=Nvidia+surround
The Nvidia cards are capable of there own 'eyefinity' solution using 3 monitors with or without utilising 3D, the only difference between the 2 is that ATI can manage to output 3 screens using a single card where as Nvidia requires 2 in SLI at a minimum (or a single GTX 295).
I'd need at least 2 1200x1600 (portrait 4:3) and 1 2560x1600 screen, possibly 3 2560x1600. So that rules TH2Go.
As Xonar says, Nvidia have their own 3 screen solution but however requires at least 2 cards in SLI. Here is some info and user experience of the tech.
The guy in that thread has 3 cards. You sure you need only 2? I have a GTX295. Does that count? Technically it's SLI.
Ye you're definitely ok with two unless you have a dual GPU card such as the GTX 295 which will allow you to run it all from a single card.
Indeed that guy does have 3, but it requires a minimal of 2 cards but works with TRI-SLI also Or of cause the gtx295 dual slot version... the single slot version only has 2 phyical outputs on the card anyways. Yes the monitors need to be the same resolution... or rather, any larger res screens will simply run at the max of the smallest resolution monitor. Example if you had... 1920x1080 + 1680x1050 + 1920x1080 then all monitors would run at 1680x1050 each.
