Widescreen Gaming Forum

First off, lots of good info on this forum. Got a specific question.

I currently have a dell 24 in lcd and a westinghouse 24 inch lcd . I plan on buying a 2nd westinghouse and place the dell in the middle along with a matrox 3head digital.

I keep seeing posts saying the ideal setup is for 3 19's due to the native resolution of the display.

Does anyone have or know about the setup I plan on getting. Currently, im playing bioshock on a display stretched across 2 24's. looks great, but im going cross eyed from the bezels in the center of the screen.


Thanks again. great site.

Because of the max horizontal and vertical resolutions I am pretty sure you will be limited to scaling your 24" displays down to 1280x800 in order to use triple head 2 go

Hello ... welcome to the forum ...

The new TripleHead2Go Digital Edition has one 16:10 widescreen solution ...

3840x800 (triple 1280x800) 60Hz ... 3 x 16:10

So using this you will not have a distorted image ... assuming your monitors can do 1280x800. (I think they can)

Any other non 16:10 res will give you a distorted image.

I keep seeing posts saying the ideal setup is for 3 19's due to the native resolution of the display.

That would be for 3 x 4:3 monitors at 1280x1024 ...
I have 3 20" Dell's with a native res of 1600x1200 but I run them at 3 x 1280x1024 ... they look fine at that res.

So all in all ... run your current monitors at 1280x800 ... see what the image is like ... if your happy ... go do what you are planning ... :D

Any other TripleHead resolution would give you a distorted images on your screens.

Thanks guys for the info so far.


So I test the res on the 2 monitors....the dell wont do the 1280x800, will do 1280 by 1024, the westy will do 1280 x 800 and 1280x1024.

So what is the best guess if I run all 3 monitors @ 1280x1024?


A little more info on my sys....2 nvidia 8800 gtx in sli.


thanks.

3 x 1280 x1024 will look distorted ... did you not notice ?

hard to tell.

checked, reset both displays thru nvidia control panel. They dont look distorted @ 1280 x 1024, however, the westy's refresh changes to 75hz.

At 1280x800 the westy's refresh resets to 60

:shock: and looks distorted....i am confused.

1280x1024 is 4:3 ... it has to look distorted on a 16:10 screen ... :wink:

1280x1024 is 4:3 ... it has to look distorted on a 16:10 screen ... :wink:

Yea that is a pretty big resolution change

Sorry paddy but I have to point this out

1280x1024 is 5:4 ;)

1600x1200 is 4:3

1280/1024=1.25 or 5/4 not 4/3 aka 1.3333

So your image is distorted too ;)

Thanks to everyone for the great responses.

I'm gonna pull the trigger and get the 2nd westy...it just dropped another 50 bucks over the weekend...399, after rebate for a 1920x1200 lcd monitor. i'll deal with the distortion...gotta get rid of that center bezel!!! :D

sorry...just to let you guys know... the deals at newegg.com :oops: