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Phaaze

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Registered: 2013-07-15

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Modern NVIDIA GPUs With More Than Two Graphics Outputs and Twinview

I recently tried adding a second NVIDIA GPU to my system in order to have three monitors.  Unfortunately the best solution I could find was seperate X screens (2 monitors on the first, 1 on the second) with the first screen being recognized as a single continuous monitor by every window manager I tried.  I have since returned that second GPU.

My plan is to get a new GPU that has four monitor outputs, likely a GTX 650 TI or GTX 650 TI Boost.  Does anyone have experience using a card like this to drive more than two monitors?  Were you able to use Twinview or were other configurations ideal?

Thanks very much for the help!

XenGi

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From: berlin, germany, europe, earth

Registered: 2013-02-23

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Re: Modern NVIDIA GPUs With More Than Two Graphics Outputs and Twinview

Maybe you could check if your current card supports 3 monitors. I have a ATI HD5770 running with 3 monitors connected to HDMI, DP and DVI. Maybe your card can do that too. Would be much cheaper to buy an adapter than another grafics card.

Last edited by XenGi (2013-07-19 04:06:50)

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andy123

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Registered: 2011-11-04

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Re: Modern NVIDIA GPUs With More Than Two Graphics Outputs and Twinview

Hi,
I'm using a GTX 650 at the moment and it works with my 2 old 1280x1024 19" and the new 1920x1080 21" like a charm. Although I use the closed source driver, I think I remeber testing nouveau some time back and it works there as well. In nvidia-settings, I simply ordered the displays, clicked apply and everything works perfect.
For four displays you might have to use displayport for one, but don't quote me on this, mine are connected via HDMI, DVI and VGA.

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