Who makes the best dual head.

[Jammrock]

2 people voted for nVidia? They have the worse 2D of them all.

[Paddy]

I always go for the underdog!

[The PIT]

Shows that Matrox still have something going for them. Perhaps they ought to buy the 9700 from ATI and do the drivers until they got another product lined up.

[UtwigMU]

Now that I have tamed both Millennium and G400 to use Matrox Powerdesk I can say that Matrox dualhead is OK. Since I haven't tried others I will refrain from judging. However I'm mainly sticking to G400 because of image quality and features and stability of drivers.

However Detonators on my 3D Prophet 2MX (singlehead) managed to discover 2nd nonexistant monitor. As I heard recent nVidia's nView improovements are decent and better than Ati's Hydravision.

Perhaps the question should be Who makes 2nd best multimonitor implementation?

[Indiana]

Originally posted by Nuno
So I´m sure Matrox is still king of the hill about multimonitor support, but ATI´s hydravision (at least on the 9700) seems rather complete to me, at least in the sense it does everything I tried and it does it correctly.

The same here. The R9700 does all I need with my dual display configuration, the same went for my G400. So I voted for both (the poll allows for multiple selections). I could not vote for NVidia, as I've had LOTS of difficulties to get that damn NView working correctly when I was asked by a freind to configure it at his rig. I've heard NView has gotten better in the meantime, though.

The only thing I'd like to see would be multiple indepent hardware-accelerated video overlays at once on all displays - but the only card that seems to only partially support this is currently the Parhelia (and this is not really an option here with it's price / performance ratio and the sluggish/ CPU intense TVOut).

With the Overlays done by pixel shaders instead of dedicated hardware, I'm sure we will see multiple (nad not just two) independent hardware overlays in the nearer future.

[Ali]

I have to say Im not as happy with the Hydravision on my 9700Pro as I am with DualHead on my G400 and G450s at work.

The ATI version does work, but is too limited, specially once youve gotten use to Matrox.

My biggest gripe for ATI is the inflexible hotkey setup for window swapping, zooming, etc.

My only experiance of nVidia is my laptop with VERY old drivers, still calls it TwinView. Thats with a Geforce 2 Go on a Dell Inspiron 8000. Its pretty crap (the multi-monitor bit).

Ali