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Offline mikhael

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New card from Matrox! (G1000)
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Originally posted by CP5670
Hehe, I know what you mean there, but I personally tend to only work on one thing at a time, and it looks kind of weird when one window is split across three screens. Also, the triple-monitor setup is pretty useless in games unless you can actually see from different angles using the side monitors, but I don't think many games support that. The last problem is that I don't have the room for two more monitors on the table here, but that's just a problem with my setup. :p ;)


The monitor case bars are a problem, indeed, but you don't have to spread windows across all the screens. The mode I run in keeps the desktops mostly seperate. If I maximise Hardlight, it fills the left monitor. If I maximise Lightwave, it fills the middle monitor.

For games, I can only play on one monitor, since I currently use three video cards. With this Matrox, I could use one videocard, and tell it that the three monitors comprise one display. This would be kinda nasty for some games, but in Jedi Knight, for example, I could set the FOV about 220 and be able to get the left and right flanks on the left and right monitors. There'd be some distortion to the top and bottom, but I think I could deal with that. ;)

In the case of flight sims, most of your serious flight sims will output views to secondary monitors. Some will even output views to secondary systems on your network.
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Offline Kitsune

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On the subject of cards:
For a gaming angle, which of these two is better:

GeForce4 for $135 us
http://www.leadtek.com/graphics/a170ddrt/a170ddrt.htm

Or the GeForce3 for $210?
http://www.leadtek.com/graphics/gf3ti200/ti200.htm

Titles aside, the statistics listed between the two are really close.

But the pricetags are really different.
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Offline Vertigo1

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Re: On the subject of cards:
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Originally posted by Kitsune
For a gaming angle, which of these two is better:

GeForce4 for $135 us
http://www.leadtek.com/graphics/a170ddrt/a170ddrt.htm

Or the GeForce3 for $210?
http://www.leadtek.com/graphics/gf3ti200/ti200.htm

Titles aside, the statistics listed between the two are really close.

But the pricetags are really different.


The GF3 is the better card since ANY GF4 MX is just a re-dressed GF2.

btw, that price for the GF3 is all wrong.  I can get one for ~ the same price you listed for the GF4 MX440.

Just remember folks, any MX card = evil.  Sure, it costs less, but you get what you pay for.
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