Re: Monitor support - M2N series
- From: nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul)
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:46:13 GMT
In article <kr2dncZem4Wt-mbZnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jbob"
<jbob1957@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm looking to finally upgrade to a newer m/b. I am looking at the M2N
series with onboard VGA. I'm probably gonna select a model with dual
on-board vid output. My question is will the m/b work with say 3 monitors
if I also later add a PCI-E graphics card? From what I have read it appears
that these dual VGA m/bs will support two monitors so adding a PCI-E vid
card I, hopefully, should be able to add at least one more monitor if I
choose to.
I have been using multiple monitors for quite a while now but have always
been using an AGP card with dual support, typically DVI and VGA outputs.
PCI-E is new to me since my main m/b is still an old A7V333.
The M2NPV-VM uses 6150 for the chipset. Nview is mentioned here
but I would also want to see it mentioned in the manual, for
verification that the two outputs work at the same time.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/gpumobo_6150-430_features.html
The M2NPV-VM has a VGA connector on the back, and it also
has a DVI-D connector. Note that DVI-D is digital only,
and does not have a second VGA signal hiding on it. Thus,
to use two LCD monitors on the back of the M2NPV-VM,
you'd need one with at least an analog connector, and
the other monitor with at least a digital connector.
Since your add-in PCI Express video card could well have
two perfectly usable video connectors on it, you only
really need one connector on the motherboard to work.
Or you could even use two PCI Express video cards to
get four monitors working. Note that Matrox makes a
(mainly 2D capable) video card that plugs into a
PCI Express x1 slot. So motherboards that have
a x16 slot and a x1 slot, can use a Matrox card in
the smaller slot, for additional monitors. You can
also get modern GPUs with PCI interface, such as
a recently announced X1300 ATI GPU equipped with
PCI. For applications like stock trading, there
are all sorts of options for supporting multiple
monitors.
There are even quad monitor cards from Matrox,
like this one. I would expect this to be bandwidth
starved, if supporting four monitors on a 32 bit
PCI slot. The two chips next to the connectors,
are probably Matrox "dual head" silicon, used to
turn one display signal, into two screens. That
is just a guess, based on three chips not normally
being needed to build a video card.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/pid/products/qid/qid_pro.cfm
And for the sake of completeness, Matrox dual or
triple head technology, allows one video card output
to be used to drive three screens. You set the resolution
of the single video card output on your motherboard to
3840x1024, and the magic triple head box makes three
screens of 1280x1024 each. This implies a certain
orientation of the original resolution, and the three
screens created from it. I would sooner invest the
money in video cards instead, as they are more
flexible.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/gxm.cfm
"TripleHead2Go: The Latest External Multi-Display
Upgrade from Matrox"
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2806
Paul
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