Matrox DualHeadToGo

[Fluff]

If the thing could be powered off USB 5v it will have much more appeal.

[Nowhere]

Hmm...Matrox page claims a bit limited compatibility...

But...it should work with, for example, some recent PCIe/AGP Nvidia or ATI card to have Triplehead on them, right? I don't see any reason why it shouldn't if drivers/GFX card support required resolution...

[VJ]

A very cool idea... and according to the PCStat article, a DVI version is in the works...

The only downside I can see is that the dualhead2go will obviously only offer a stretched mode display. But apart from that, it is way cool and innovative.
And the price doesn't seem too steep to me...


Jörg

[Marshmallowman]

Get a half decent 3d card form ATI or nvidia and one of these and you have surround gaming at a decent frame rate..well I hope anyway. Is it comptabile with 7800gt?

This could be a very sweet concept.

[Sasq]

I would say go the nV cards,
also worthy to note the edid only sends out Dual Head modes, so you can't do TH stretched atm...

[Nowhere]

If this can work with PCIe/AGP cards, you can, they're dual head from the start so you'd have to only set stretched desktop across 3 (2 for system) monitors. The question is do they allow it (nevermind does it work with DualHead2Go at all...)

[Sasq]

If I answer, NO IT WON'T. are you going to accept it?
nope, sigh didn't think so.
The drivers from ATI and nV won't let you.
No, don't ask me why.

[Dr Mordrid]

This from my contact at Matrox;

>The compatability list is there for RMA reasons.

IMO no suprise there.

>All we do is report to Windows as a monitor that supports 2 large resolutions.
>
> The GPU is the actual driver for performance at those 2 resolutions. So for any
> problems with 3D on high resolutions clients will have to contact their GPU
> vendor.

No suprise here either.

Sasq:

That's what the P-cards and APVe are for

Say what you will, the Matrox P-cards and APVe are the tits for multimonitor productivity (video editing etc.) use. I've found nothing that can touch 'em.

Call me when ATI and NVIDIA learn how to do multiple overlays and TV-Out properly.

Dr. Mordrid

[Ali]

opps. Just made a thread in Matrox Hardware. Seemed the better place.

Very excited about this peice of hardware. Ill be getting one for my desktop replacement laptop as soon as Ive read a few reviews on it.

Time to order a couple of 20 inch 1280*1024 LCDs that can accept both DVI and analogue by the looks of things.

Ali

[Taz]

Time to order a couple of 20 inch 1280*1024 LCDs...

20" LCD's run at 1600 x 1200 natively, you'd need to go down to a 19", 18" or 17" for 1280 x 1024 native

[gorg]

Bah, Windoze only. Sorry Matrox, not interested. Moving on ...

[VJ]

Bah, Windoze only. Sorry Matrox, not interested. Moving on ...

I actually wonder about that.
Seeing how it presents itself as a single monitor to the computer, why would it need specific software? So perhaps one can use it for other platforms, but one would loose the functionality offered by PowerDesk...


Jörg

[UtwigMU]

Since this looks like just really wide monitor to graphic card, any OS that can handle resolution should theoretically work. So in Lunix you should just edit your xorg.conf accordingly. I don't know how monitor settings are handled under MacOS but it should also work.

Probably just not officially supported for RMA reasons, etc... by Matrox.

[Jessterw]

I don't know how monitor settings are handled under MacOS but it should also work..

Anyone want to donate one to me so I can test it out

[Sasq]

i would think it works fine under OSX and Nix, just no powerdesk cute tweak functions for it.