Erik.Schiegg wrote:Is it possible to use an on-board graphicchip additionally to the seperate graphiccard in order to use three (3
) monitors (miam!) on a single computer?
Is it POSSIBLE? Probably. Issue number one would be the drivers though. You're going to need two different GPU drivers resident on your system (one for the on-board graphics chip-set and one for your PCI-e). That's huge and most likely that's your downfall right there. It's early and I'm still on my first cup of coffee, and maybe there's a simple workaround that I'm not thinking of, but I don't see how two graphics drivers WOULDN'T wind up dealing your OS absolute fits.
So... What to do? I would suggest dumping the on-board graphics altogether and using two ATI graphics cards that support dual outputs. Think going SLI, but simply not enabling the SLI option: You're going to be feeding the outputs to separate monitors instead. Very clever!!
You have a lot of options for cards, but I really don't know how much power you want. I suggest going with the Red Team simply because their software makes setting up multiple monitors a snap. But if you're a die-hard nVidia guy, I'm not saying you can't go that route.
Two All-In-Wonder X1800 XL cards would work to get up to four displays on an SLI enabled motherboard for instance and provide you with some pretty awesome performance without going nutty. I'd probably go with a couple X1600's for something more middle of the road, or twin X700's if I needed to get it done on the cheap.