Hi all,
I am looking into upgrading to a Triplehead setup, primarily for my racing sims and the extra immersion it provides. Before I take the plunge I was wondering if anyone here could offer advice on the following..:-
1. At the moment I use a 22'' Samsung 2232bw monitor. I cannot find this monitor on sale new anywhere, as it has been replaced with new models. Would buying 2 identical similar monitors for the left and right work, or would I notice significant colour differences when moving my view from the center monitor?
2. Can anyone recommend a cheap widescreen monitor to use alongside my existing 2232bw samsung? I want to make the setup 3x22'' 16:9 monitors, with resolutions of 1680x1050.
3. I do a lot of music production, and it seems there are several people around here that do too. Would it be easy to use the triplehead setup to spread my music software over multiple screens? For example, a mixer on one screen, a track view on another and, say, a score layout on the third?
4. I'm looking at getting the Matrox Triplehead2go hardware. How does this compare to SoftTH? Could I use the 3 monitors as an extended desktop as described above using SoftTH? Does using Soft TH use more system resources than the TH2Go? Does Soft TH even support the native res I am looking for of 5040*1050? (Sorry, lots of questions there! )
5. Where is the best place to get the TH2Go? Cheapest I've seen is £245 from scan.co.uk.
6. My current spec is an 8800gt 512mb, Q6600 and 4gb ram running Vista 32bit. Would this be enough to run LFS and iRacing etc at a decent lick across 3 screens, or would an upgrade be in order?
Thats all I can think of for now. Sorry about all of the text, and thanks in advance for your replies.
Andrew.
I am looking into upgrading to a Triplehead setup, primarily for my racing sims and the extra immersion it provides. Before I take the plunge I was wondering if anyone here could offer advice on the following..:-
1. At the moment I use a 22'' Samsung 2232bw monitor. I cannot find this monitor on sale new anywhere, as it has been replaced with new models. Would buying 2 identical similar monitors for the left and right work, or would I notice significant colour differences when moving my view from the center monitor?
2. Can anyone recommend a cheap widescreen monitor to use alongside my existing 2232bw samsung? I want to make the setup 3x22'' 16:9 monitors, with resolutions of 1680x1050.
3. I do a lot of music production, and it seems there are several people around here that do too. Would it be easy to use the triplehead setup to spread my music software over multiple screens? For example, a mixer on one screen, a track view on another and, say, a score layout on the third?
4. I'm looking at getting the Matrox Triplehead2go hardware. How does this compare to SoftTH? Could I use the 3 monitors as an extended desktop as described above using SoftTH? Does using Soft TH use more system resources than the TH2Go? Does Soft TH even support the native res I am looking for of 5040*1050? (Sorry, lots of questions there! )
5. Where is the best place to get the TH2Go? Cheapest I've seen is £245 from scan.co.uk.
6. My current spec is an 8800gt 512mb, Q6600 and 4gb ram running Vista 32bit. Would this be enough to run LFS and iRacing etc at a decent lick across 3 screens, or would an upgrade be in order?
Thats all I can think of for now. Sorry about all of the text, and thanks in advance for your replies.
Andrew.