Curious about adding a 3rd display

[cadder]

This would be for my CAD workstation.
Right now I have an ATI FireGL V3600 card with dual digital outputs, and I'm running a pair of Viewsonic 22" widescreens.
I had a wild idea to switch to a larger central display and put a smaller display on each side since we have some older 19" non-widescreen displays laying around. The added display would not need any special graphics acceleration capabilities.

My mobo is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R. It has a single PCIEX16 slot, and some 3 each PCIEX1 and PCI slots. Would I get a standard PCI card to run a third monitor? If you have dual video cards what is required to extend the desktop across 3 screens? Would both cards need to be ATI?

 

[jfurterer]

You may be able to simply split the cable off of one of the ATI outputs and hook the two 19" up to it. Windows should recognize them as 2 monitors.
http://cables.cablesunlimited.com/cables/Dvi%20Splitter

I'd go that road since you don't need heavy graphics acceleration if it's just a workstation.

 

[Nik_I]

i'd suggest a matrox tripleheadtogo. it's exactly what you're looking for.