Tom's Hardware Guide writes about multi-display gaming!

[Mikko]

Here it is, enjoy!

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040216/index.html

It almost makes me laugh, when they call NVIDIA spanned dualhead configuration as "Surround Gaming"! Not only that, they have completely left Matrox Parhelia out of the benchmarks. It would have been interesting to see the difference...

But it is also nice to see that ideas originally made by Matrox are starting to make people interested.

[bsdgeek]

Ridiculous.

[piaxVirus]

Wow, that was... crap.

That article lacked everything, contained many factual errors, and should have came out many years ago when the G400 was released. Why did they even bother.

And calling two display gaming "Surround Gaming" is retarded.

[dZeus]

if you place the left monitor directly opposed of the right monitor, and sit on a rotating chair that can only rotate one way, it's kind of surround gaming

[Technoid]

During our tests, we literally fried an NVIDIA FX 5950 Ultra. One moment, the card was running just fine, the next there was a loud bang and it smelled as if something had burned. We will investigate this phenomenon further to rule out the possibility of this being a coincidence.

Tom's Hardware : Masters of frying chips

[GNEP]

That article was just ... funny can't dignify it with any other comment.

[rylan]

That pretty much sums up the quality of articles that Tom's Hardware is pumping out for the last year or so.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

tom's article is bad enough normal, but this one is the worse one i have ever seen. Sigh... what were they thinking...

I wonder if they realize with dual-screen gaming with POV stretched, your centre view will be between the two monitors.... which 3 screen gaming can prevent...

but then I never know you can run stretched gaming mode on NV line of gfx card. So that was a bit interesting.

Other than that, i'd say NVIDIA sucks. dual screen gaming and makes the chip run at 81 degrees instead of ~60 degrees in single-head mode...

lol

again, I better emphasis that Asus does make a dual dvi card. I wonder why everybody doesn't realize that... (or at least it seems to me)

[Byock]

Bah, that article stunk.

He did mention Matrox several times, but no mention of the P, and NONE about true surround gaming.

[borat]

so from what i skim read there, Ati and Nvid can only output games to 2 monitors, and then only for a few minutes at a time before the whole thing gets too hot and explodes, i eat my words when i slagged my parhelia off, it can not only output to 3 screens but also play true surropund gaming on them, and still not explode. Looks like my parhelia will be with me for a little while yet if thats what ati and Nvid are about.

on another note pointless article.

[leech]

They DO mention the Parhelia, more in passing than anything else though....

Unfortunately, only Matrox currently offers such a solution, and its 3D performance is insufficient for modern games.

Also at the very beginning of the article....

While NVIDIA and ATi cards usually sport a maximum of two VGA connectors, cards such as Matrox' Parhelia can accommodate as many as three.

But all in all a worthless article, since playng BF1942 with one screen as the action and the other as the map just doesn't work. Though it does work with three monitors... And Ghost Recon, from what I've read works as the writer wished BF1942 worked. Funny how they say that the performance is insufficient for modern games. And yet they list X2: The Threat. It runs awesome, as long as the bumpmapping is turned off. Granted that's one minus, but I'm really wondering how well that runs on other cards, anyone know?

Leech

[Byock]

Let me install it, and I will let you know. *laughs*

[borat]

ive neverplayed a game that ont work on my parhelia with decent FPS, even if youhave to drop a resolution, it still plays games fluidly, and at the nd ofthe day are we meriting a card on what it can do on paper or the visual quality that is the end result, im sure if i fired up my parhelia with faa on at 1280*1024, it would look as impressive as a geforce at 1600*1200 and be equally as smooth - fact is parhelia will play games fine at 2400*600 with faa so even if the benchies worked in favour of ATI and Nvid, the article should at least have done a comparison againt a parhelia triple head, if only to say - yes our suspisions are confirmed and it performs like a dog.

[Kurt]

No objectivity, no consistency, lack of research, etc. It's a cr*p article. Period.

[gt40]

wow, to think at one time I actually considered Tom's to have a measure of credibility