Help with running 3 displays!!!

Jozzman · 10-27-05, 06:24 PM

Hi, I currently use a stock Dell 8400 with the Nvidia 6800 GTO card with two 17" LCD's. I would like to run a third display (probably 19" LCD) and would like to know the best (and easiest) way of doing this. I'm not a big gamer; mainly doing this for school (online) and work (on-call monitor/responding).

**saturnotaku** · 10-27-05, 06:34 PM

The only way (unless you want to drop $350+ on a Matrox Parhelia) would be to pick up a cheap PCI video card like a Radeon 7000 or GeForce MX 4000 and hook up the display to that. Before you do that, check your system BIOS to see if there's an option have the first video device be PCI (instead of onboard or AGP/PCI-Express).

TierMann · 10-27-05, 06:48 PM

Newegg has a rosewill Geforce 5200 128mb pci for 50 bucks. It has a vga and dvi connection and tv-out. That would be good too for a 4th monitor some day.

Jozzman · 10-27-05, 07:05 PM

Thanks Tiermann

10-27-05, 06:24 PM	#1
Jozzman Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Manassas, VA Posts: 2	Help with running 3 displays!!! Hi, I currently use a stock Dell 8400 with the Nvidia 6800 GTO card with two 17" LCD's. I would like to run a third display (probably 19" LCD) and would like to know the best (and easiest) way of doing this. I'm not a big gamer; mainly doing this for school (online) and work (on-call monitor/responding). __________________ Dell Dimension 8400/Win XP Sp2 1Gb DDR2 RAM Nvidia GeForce 6800 GTO w/ Dual 17" LCD's

10-27-05, 06:34 PM	#2
saturnotaku Apple user. Deal with it. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The 'burbs, IL USA Posts: 12,502	Re: Help with running 3 displays!!! The only way (unless you want to drop $350+ on a Matrox Parhelia) would be to pick up a cheap PCI video card like a Radeon 7000 or GeForce MX 4000 and hook up the display to that. Before you do that, check your system BIOS to see if there's an option have the first video device be PCI (instead of onboard or AGP/PCI-Express).

10-27-05, 06:48 PM	#3
TierMann Bite my shiny, metal @ss! Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: PA, USA Posts: 1,586	Re: Help with running 3 displays!!! Newegg has a rosewill Geforce 5200 128mb pci for 50 bucks. It has a vga and dvi connection and tv-out. That would be good too for a 4th monitor some day. __________________ Athlon 64 4400+ X2 (10x250= 2.5ghz) \| Foxconn NF4KS8AA-8EKRS (nForce4 SLI) \| 2GB OCZ DDR400 @ 416 (3-3-3-8) \| eVGA 8800GTS 320mb Red Diabolic Minotaur Case \| PCP&C 610 Silencer \| Samsung 19" 997DF + Acer AL1914smd-8 \| G15 Keyboard \| MX Revolution \| 900Gb Storage Vista Ultimate 32 + Gentoo Linux (Gnome + Beryl) Athlon XP 3000+ \| ECS KM400M2 3.0 \| 512mb DDR333 \| PNY 5200 Ultra TV-Tuner \| Silver Aspire X-Qpack w/Windows \| WinXP MCE 2005 \| 200Gb Storage DVD Collection -- MySpace

10-27-05, 07:05 PM	#4
Jozzman Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Manassas, VA Posts: 2	Re: Help with running 3 displays!!! Thanks Tiermann __________________ Dell Dimension 8400/Win XP Sp2 1Gb DDR2 RAM Nvidia GeForce 6800 GTO w/ Dual 17" LCD's

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