P650 can upgrade to display triple head

[Lim]

Learn from the Digital Video Editing , there is an upgrade kit that can unlock P650 to display 3 monitors for US$90.

[DGhost]

*yawn* old news, me thinks.

[Whirl-Secret]

got a dilemma...

work is offering me for free, 3 iiyama 17" crts... it would be rude not to accept them!

I can ditch my current monitor (hansol 19") without regret.

That leaves me with a P650 and 3 iiyamas (2 x visionmaster pro 410s, 1 x vision master pro 413).

The monitors are old but flat and work fine. They can all easily do 1280 res.

I use dualhead at work with a laptop display and extra tft and i really like it of course. I have never used triplehead, but with getting the monitor for free, I am tempted!

Which do you think is the best option:

1) stick with P650 and take the 2 nicest monitors.

2) keep P650, take all 3 monitors, get a cheap radeon 7000 pci card for triplehead.

3) buy P650 tirplehead adapter... i feel a bit ripped off paying around 75 GBP after tax and shipping for this

4) get a Parhelia. I don't really have need of it in terms of 2d/3d speed (that is why I got the p650 in the first place) but it would solve the problem.


Money is to be considered but I could get a Parhelia if it was warranted. What do you think?

Thanks for all your inputs.

[borat]

Would'nt entertain the radeon PCI, as it never played well when in my system, and when doing things in 2D, just excel macros, it literally took twicer as long on the radeon screen as it did on the parhelia screens(i had 2 screens on P, 1 on the radeon). Option 3 is also out because you've paid the most part of a parhelia for the add on module. You could stick to 2 screens, i wouldnt, or you could get a parhelia/P750, try ebay, cards seemed to be going farily cheap last time i checked. If you do get a parhelia make sure its a P8x and not an origional, as it has many bugs fixed, i doubt there is much price difference between the 2 either. If your getting a P750 then this does not apply as they are all bugfixed.
hope this helps

[Whirl-Secret]

Cheers Borat... your opinion is always welcome.

Looks like I might not get them after all, I'm an IT worker and that distributed file system with file replication service we installed last week was very quietly overwriting newer files with older, and someone only complained now... I'll be lucky to have my job at the weekend, nevermind the monitors hehe

... I mean

Btw back on topic... I know radeon 7xxxs are painfully bad, wasn't really considering it, but what about another option - instead of triplehead 3 * 1280x1024 res, what about say 2 * 1600x1200 on bigger monitors. 3,932,160 pixels vs 3,840,000 respectively, but without buying a new gfx card. I do like my real estate, often have photoshop, dreamweaver and director open at once.

Although those surround HL2 screenies did look nice...