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What is the best way to run 3 monitors?
What would be the best card configuration to run three monitors? I want to be able to watch TV and also get realtime info from two diff. websites at the same time(is this possible?). I also want to be able to watch DVD movies on my TV in the next room and do some gaming on this computer. Thanks
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Obviously you could use the dual head feature of the G400. This would allow you see 2 monitors with whatever.
If you also wanted to watch TV at the same time, you'd probably have to buy a TV!
However, you could buy a TV card for your computer, and watch TV in a window on one of your monitors. TV cards are good, as they pass the TV picture through the PCI Bus. (No pass-through cables).
For watching DVDs, you could plug the 2nd head of the G400 into the TV (via a long cable!).
If you wanted to play movies on your TV, AND play games at the same time, you will have to but a DVD Hardware decoder card.
I have a Hollywood+, which is very good, apart from a REALLY CRAP pass-through cable. However, I have overcome the problem by tapping the H/V sync pins of my VGA card, to the VGA input of the H+ card. (ie: It THINKS it is getting a VGA signal).
Then I plug the DVD VGA output into the 2nd input of my monitor.
That way, my G400 goes STRAIGHT to my 17" Iiyama monitor. - Superb picture!
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