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Jeff54

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5 monitors with one GTX 285 Sunday, January 29, 2012 1:37 PM (permalink)

I have one GTX 285 with dual dvi-d outputs.
I am running one to my triple head to go adapter that runs 3 monitors at 5780x1080.
I am running the other output to a single monitor.
Questions:

Are the dvi outputs each a dual dvi-d output?
If it is, is there a cable that will let me run two monitors independently?
I am ultimately trying to get 6 monitors from one computer.
Thanks,
Jeff

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Re:5 monitors with one GTX 285 Sunday, January 29, 2012 2:01 PM (permalink)

There are DVI monitor splitter cables, but I don't know how well they work. That second Amazon link review says what happens with cable splitters, you might not get separate independent signals accross the split, implying a $20 cable would do what your $200+ Triple head device does. Probably better off with another Triple-Head.

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Re:5 monitors with one GTX 285 Sunday, January 29, 2012 4:31 PM (permalink)

doesn't Nvidia's drivers still have temperature problems with 2 monitors on 1 card? I can only imagine how bad it would be if tried with 5

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notuptome2004 Total Posts : 508 Joined: 6/29/2009 Status: offline	Re:5 monitors with one GTX 285 Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:42 PM (permalink) i think if you want 6 monitors your better off getting one of AMDs new graphics cards made for 6 monitors cause even if you was to be able to get 6 screens on your current rig the performance would not be there with the old 285 GPU
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Re:5 monitors with one GTX 285 Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:23 PM (permalink)

I resolved the issue and ended up with 6 monitors but had to add a 9800gtx card to do it:
gtx 285 is driving matrox Triple head2go (3 monitors) and one individual monitor.
9800gtx is driving two seperate monitors. No duplicates.
I am able to run 6 seperate monitors (full screen video on each one or 6 different anythings). I am running 6 loop videos all night to make sure I am not overloading anthing.
I am going to work on x-plane tomorrow to see what I can do with the xtra monitors (panel and????.
Thanks for the help,
Jeff

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julianed Total Posts : 12 Joined: 2/3/2012 Status: offline	Re:5 monitors with one GTX 285 Friday, February 03, 2012 6:32 PM (permalink) yeah cheers. this helped me too
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