3 monitors on GT220?

[Macpaq]

Hi, my trusty PNY 7300GT died on my HackPro. I got a Gigabyte GeForce GT220 1G, this card works almost OOB, all I needed is to set GraphicEnabler to Yes, I am not absolutly sure if QE/CI are working, but it plays my DVDs, the picture looks awesome, and when the screen saver "Flurry" comes on it looks the way it should be so I think I can safely assume QE/CI are working.

 

This card has 3 outputs, HDMI/DVI and VGA, right now I am using HDMI for my HP Hd monitor . still need to get the audio tho, DVI is on a wide screen Acer. I have another Acer wide screen monitor, Is it possible to use the VGA output to make my system to have 3 displays ? like 3 desktops?

 

I am running Lion 10.7 on an Intel DG31PR board, 4G of RAM Q660 quard core.

[m404]

[...]I got a Gigabyte GeForce GT220 1G

[...]

This card has 3 outputs, HDMI/DVI and VGA.

[...]

Is it possible to use the VGA output to make my system to have 3 displays ? like 3 desktops?

 

hello !

 

sadly, the answer is no.

you see, the thing here is, your graphics card actually only has 2 outputs (in terms of the GPU)

you have 3 connection possibilities, because one output (usually port 1) comes with 2 connection types (in ur case, that would be HDMI/VGA connectors, i think).

 

if you want, you can find out which two connectors share the same port by connecting a variety of combinations (HDMI+DVI, VGA+DVI and HDMI+VGA) ... the one time only one screen (or none) shows a picture, that's when u got both screens connected to one port

 

if u want a cheap triple-head solution, at this time u have to look at AMD graphic cards ... nvidias solutions are rather expensive :/

 

greetz, m404

[Macpaq]

hello !

 

sadly, the answer is no.

you see, the thing here is, your graphics card actually only has 2 outputs (in terms of the GPU)

you have 3 connection possibilities, because one output (usually port 1) comes with 2 connection types (in ur case, that would be HDMI/VGA connectors, i think).

 

if you want, you can find out which two connectors share the same port by connecting a variety of combinations (HDMI+DVI, VGA+DVI and HDMI+VGA) ... the one time only one screen (or none) shows a picture, that's when u got both screens connected to one port

 

if u want a cheap triple-head solution, at this time u have to look at AMD graphic cards ... nvidias solutions are rather expensive :/

 

greetz, m404

 

Thanks for the reply.

I was under the impression it will output all 3. Do you have an AMD card you can recommend?