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  • PCI Express NVidia card + AGP Parhelia - Are 3 or 4 Screens Possible?

    Revised Question - I am going to get a Matrox Millennium P650 PCIe card and I want to use it with an NVidia PCIe card. The NVidia card will be the main one since I want to be able to play games this time around. I want to continue using a 3 screen setup. Does the PowerDesk software work when there is another card in the system? If you have a similar setup can you give us an overview of your experiences?

    Thanks!

    Originally posted by darthJones
    I'm planning on upgrading and was thinking about getting a PCI Express Nvidia card (I don't have a specific model in mind right now) and using that as my main card. It isn't really cost effective to get 3 new video cards in order to keep my 3 screen setup so I was wondering if I can use the Nvidia card as my main card and have the Parhelia extend my desktop onto 2 other monitors (or 3 if necessary). Does the PowerDesk software work when there is another card in the system? If you have a similar setup can you give us an overview of your experiences?

    Thanks
    Last edited by darthJones; 20 June 2005, 23:04.

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    It will be quite a challenge to find a motherboard with a 16x PCI-E slot as well as an AGP slot.
    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      ASRock 775DUAL. Dunno if both work as the same time.

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      • #4
        the nvidia cards do dual monitor setups quite good, so just get the nv card another pci card just for the third monitor.
        Q9450 + TRUE, G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2, GTX 560, ASUS X48, 1TB WD Black, Windows 7 64-bit, LG M2762D-PM 27" + 17" LG 1752TX, Corsair HX620, Antec P182, Logitech G5 (Blue)
        Laptop: MSI Wind - Black

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        • #5
          see review of the ASRock here:

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          • #6
            Thanks for the info on the ASRock. After a lot of thinking, I've decided to get the PCIe Millenium and a PCIe NVidia. I've changed my original question accordingly - If I were to use the Millenium and the NVidia cards at the same time, would I be able to get 3 screens up and running without much of a hassle?

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            • #7
              I'd say that depends how well behaved (in relation to other manufacturers...) are now drivers from nvidia...

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