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Seeking Advice re Matrox Triple Head To Go

Naismith

Naismith

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I am currently thinking seriously about getting into this Triple Head To Go thing. I went to CostCo tonight as they have a special on Samsung monitors. I wisely turned them around to look at the connections on the back and noticed that the sockets on all modern (that's a laugh my current Samsung T220 is 2 years old) LCD's are not the same. They appear to be HDMI or similar. There is also the old fashioned blue VGA and USB inputs, but none of the type I have (I think its called DVI). Anyway looking at current Matrox 3H2Go units, they all seem to be DVI.
I've tried You Tube for reviews but most folks just want to show off their systems rather than show the nuts and bolts. Matrox own site isn't to forthcoming and a lot of info there is quite old.
Any advice gratefully received Pros Cons Pitfalls. Also Do the 3H2GO come with cabling? Or is that another purchase?
 
Hi, even though i dont have these we have a few dotted around work for advertising purposes. They have a DVI and VGA input but the 3x outputs are only DVI, if you have VGA monitors or HDMI you can buy adaptors that go from DVI to HDMI/VGA...

Hope that helps out a bit?
 
Thanks for that. Wondering now just how good these things are, reading customer reviews at the FS.com Pilot Shop can be discouraging, but then often only annoyed people bother to voice their complaints in my exp and the satisfied ones just get on and enjoy their product and forget to heap praise upon something worthy. I see all these YouTube videos of simmers enojoying the 3H2GO. The research goes on....:mixedsmi:
 
I used one for a year and change - enjoyed it a great deal but finally gave it up. I miss the panorama and the sense of motion you get from peripheral vision, which is very helpful on landing in particular. But there was definitely a performance hit from it (figure the extra work the video card has to do to push out all those pixels). Also, the driver is a little old and sometimes has trouble interfacing with the newer NVidia drivers. I had to do an elaborate workaround (available on the 3D Gaming Forum) to get an acceptable screen resolution to work. My personal tolerance for that kind of complexity isn't huge, so to me it was refreshing to step back to a good, large single monitor, and I don't find I've missed it. But as you know, we all have our reactions, and I know a lot of simmers who are still enjoying the TH2Go and don't have a problem with the relatively small amount of additional work it takes to get it running.

If you're interested in the triple monitor effect, you might also want to look at ATI Eyefinity or NVidia 3D Vision Surround, which use the the video card (in the case of NVidia, two video cards in SLI) to drive multiple monitors. These are apparently less kludgy since they work through the video driver itself. I don't have any experience with them but maybe somebody else here does.

Hope this helps.
 
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