[olug] Triple-output video card.

T. J. Brumfield enderandrew at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 22:14:16 UTC 2009


The new Eyefinity ATI cards do three heads per card. My 5750 does that  
for 150 bucks.

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On Dec 12, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:

> Nitpick: PCI Express is abbreviated PCI-E. PCIX (or PCI-X) refers to
> 100MHz & 133Mhz 64-bit PCI.
>
> As for a 3-head video card, I'm not aware of such a beast on the  
> market.
>
> I've seen 2 head, 4 head and even 8 head video cards, but never 3  
> head.
>
> A word of warning from someone who has been there and done that:
>
> If you need more than 2 heads use more than 1 video card. A decent
> 2-head video card (say, ATI 4650) is well under $100, but a crappy
> quad-head video card will run you $500!
>
> On 12/12/2009 7:38 AM, Dan Linder wrote:
>> Someone mentioned they had a PCIx 2.0 video card that had three
>> outputs.  I can't seem to track such a beast down on
>> NewEgg/ZipZoomFly...  Anyone have any suggestions as to a
>> make/model/vendor?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> DanL
>>
>
>
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> Phil Brutsche
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