Hi all. It's been a number of years since I've posted. Kind of got out of it for a while then with the pending release of FSX I found myself lurking and reading.Anyway, my current rig is a P4/2.8/9800Pro driving three CRT's. I'm ready to do some upgrades, but the first will be to my desk (is that a hardware upgrade? sorry for the pun). Before I make the selection I want to make sure I have room for my displays. My debate is do I run with twin 22's or tripple 19's? Specifically:- In the past I've ran two 3D screens off the 9800Pro with a third off an old PCI card for 2D panels only. The secondary display off the 9800 always suffered so I'm thinking that a TH2GO is a better solution. Is this valid thinking?- if I run a TH2GO, do I just use a single video card? If so, what card supports a 3840 (3x1280) or 3360 (2x1680) resolution? The ATI website shows maximum H-res in the 2500 range.- I like the idea of minimizing boarders, so the 22" is appealing. However it puts the gap right down the center. Opinions from those using this?- is either setup better for frames rates?- any other advice?I guess I should also say that most of my flying is in either airliners (LD767) or twins. I've always favored the 2D panel environment, but I *might* be willing to try VC again with the new TrackIR setups. VC has never done it for me when trying to fly an approach.Thanks in advance!Dennis

My recent post http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...id=18382&page=2 just moved off the first page of the forum and should answer some of your questions.Gary

The TrackIR will work on either setup, 2 or 3 screen.

Thanks Gary and yes I did read your post.I ended up buying a Viewsonic 2235 from Costco ($349) and I really like it. It's huge compared to my 19" CRT's. This month they have them on sale for $50 off so I'm going to pick up a second one and run the twin displays.The only real question I have now is what video card to use and how do you set it to acheive a 3840 x 1050 resolution. The nvidia website shows them maxing out at 2560 for the width. On a dual DVI card does that just mean that each channel is maxed at 2560? In that case a span of 3840 isn't a problem. Do both channels offer the same speed and color depth? On my "old" 9800 pro, spanning displays does not result in equal performance.Thanks again.Dennis

Dennis,Yes, the 2560 limitation applies to each display driven, not both displays spanned. My 6800 Go quite happily drives both these monitors in spanned mode at 3360x1050, yet my X800XT will ony run both monitors at 1680x1050 in dual view mode, but not in spanned mode for some reason. I should get my 7900 GTO by the end of next week and will be able to confirm then whether or not this newer nVidia card supports my desired spanned mode. I'm thinking that if my skanky old 6800 can do it, then surely the latest and greatest from nVidia will as well.Regarding performance and colour depth, I have found no difference in performance on either screen when in spanned mode on either my 6800 or X800. It behaves as one big single screen, as the spanned mode name suggests.GaryPS: Unfortunately, my temp video card maxes out at 1152x864 (which is not even widescreen) before dropping to 16-bit colour, so I don't recommend any of nVidia's really old video cards like the 4M Diamond Viper V330 PCI for a spanned widescreen setup:-lol

Thanks for the clarification. I've always been an ATI fan, but I'm looking pretty closely at a 7950 whenever I get around to upgrading.I can't say how happy I am with the 22" widescreen. Great investment!

oh, and one other question: have you thought about using your old card to drive a third (inexpensive 17"?) display for 2D panels?