Win 98 allows for multiple PCI video cards to display
a big desktop on.  Unfortunetly, in my case, the monitors
interfere with each other when they sit next to each other
and then they flicker. :-( That's the only
way I want to use them.  Oh well....

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell McMahon [mailto:apptech@CLEAR.NET.NZ]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 6:00 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT]How many monitors?


>How many monitors can you drive from one graphics card?
>
>I know there will be a limit, but would it be possible to use two or three
>with a simple Y cable arrangement?


YES, BUT ... :-)

Quality will degrade.
I sometimes run 2 on a Y cable and you get reflections etc and quality goes
down.
Bearable but not nice.
I can run this at 1024 x 768 but you wish you hadn't :-)

You can buy buffers which isolate the input signal and provide a copy at
each output.
You could no doubt build one using the cheap 3 pin monolithic amplifiers
intended for eg cable tv or tv antenna amplifiers but it would be not too
much dearer to buy a ready made unit.

3 monitors on a 3 headed Y would no doubt work but expect substantial
picture quality degradation.



RM