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Has anyone used a Matrox QID for three or four screens?
Here is my sittuation:
I love tripplehead in a 2D web/programming development workstation. I have no use for 3D.
I am beginning to loath Parhelias stretched desktop implementation and want to go back to independedent resolutions + ultramon. I am finding too many applications that just dont know how to behave on the super large stretched desktop and Powerdesk just doesnt do a great job of handling all the window redrawing as well as I would like. Too many windows are opening smeared across two or more screens and require manual resizing before Powerdesk can attempt to force them into complience.
I am currently switching back to PCI+AGP card (either 2 x G450 or G450PCI + Parhelia). This gives me the window management that I want, but suffers from problems with frequent slow screen redrawing that has been reported before in these forums (possibly a lack of bus mastering on non intel mobos or possibly just a PCI bandwidth problem).
So... I see two solutions that look good to me.
1). matrox QID supports up to 4 independent desktops all contained in a single AGP 8x card. No 3D but I dont need it.
2). wait for Dual PCIe 16x slot motherboards to come around and get two PCIe video cards to run them as separate cards (up to 4 screens) *not* as SLI. Presumably this combo will give me the 3 screens without any bandwidth problems.
Thoughts?
Am I the only one that finds a stretched desktop just too damn inconvenient?
Here is my sittuation:
I love tripplehead in a 2D web/programming development workstation. I have no use for 3D.
I am beginning to loath Parhelias stretched desktop implementation and want to go back to independedent resolutions + ultramon. I am finding too many applications that just dont know how to behave on the super large stretched desktop and Powerdesk just doesnt do a great job of handling all the window redrawing as well as I would like. Too many windows are opening smeared across two or more screens and require manual resizing before Powerdesk can attempt to force them into complience.
I am currently switching back to PCI+AGP card (either 2 x G450 or G450PCI + Parhelia). This gives me the window management that I want, but suffers from problems with frequent slow screen redrawing that has been reported before in these forums (possibly a lack of bus mastering on non intel mobos or possibly just a PCI bandwidth problem).
So... I see two solutions that look good to me.
1). matrox QID supports up to 4 independent desktops all contained in a single AGP 8x card. No 3D but I dont need it.
2). wait for Dual PCIe 16x slot motherboards to come around and get two PCIe video cards to run them as separate cards (up to 4 screens) *not* as SLI. Presumably this combo will give me the 3 screens without any bandwidth problems.
Thoughts?
Am I the only one that finds a stretched desktop just too damn inconvenient?
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