On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:07:22 GMT
I am looking to place several monitors in a configuration to mock-up
the view through an airplane cockpit. I have an ati AIW card and
thought it would do the trick. Any suggestions?
AIW isn't really a good choice for that kind of thing--it gives you one
TV-out and one VGA or DVI out, except the new 9600AIW, that has two VGA
outputs. Any of the current non-AIW ATI boards should give you dual
display, most of them 1 VGA and one DVI. The ATI workstation boards
(FireGL) can provide dual DVI.
Best bet if you don't don't need DirectX acceleration or high
performance 3D would be the Matrox boards--the Parhelia gives you
decent but not outstanding 3D and supports two DVI and one VGA monitor,
while the MMS 200 and 450 give you 4 VGA or DVI per board without much
in the way of 3d acceleration. The 450 supports TV displays as well as
VGA and DVI. Multiple MMS boards can be used to give you up to 10
displays with 2K or XP and up to 16 with NT.