underOATH Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Hi, I'm looking to run 3 or 4 monitors, and I was wondering what it would take to run 2 nvidia 79/8800's... First, is this supported by the mac drivers, and what c2d motherboard would be the best choice for this project? I searched around a little for this, but didn't find much. Anyone else here running 3 or more monitors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqua-mac Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Have a look HERE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nigelbb Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 In the Hackintosh that I built for my wife she wanted four monitor screens. I used two Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 cards that I bought cheap off Ebay a while ago. These work great with CI & QE driving four monitors connected via DVI. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P.These graphics cards are designed for multi-display graphics for businesses such as financial traders so probably not great for games but work really well for her use. Total screen real estate is 1280x1024 + 1280x1024 + 1920x1200 +1680x1050 It took quite a lot of experimentation to find the winning formula but it now works perfectly. The critical steps were using NVinject.0.2.0d_universal_dual_cards http://nvinject.free.fr/files/NVinject.0.2..._dual_cards.zip & setting PEG2 as primary display in the BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelbb Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I checked this on a Hackintosh that I am building for my own use. It works perfectly with a 7300GT in one slot & a 7950GS in the other. Again the magic required is to set PEG2 as primary display in the BIOS & use this version of NVinject http://nvinject.free.fr/files/NVinject.0.2..._dual_cards.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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