3 displays with a 9800se?

[Daewood]

like the title is it possible to use this card (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-131-236&depa=0) to run dual crt's and use the middle tv out to a 5 inch lcd?

[Aphex_Tom_9]

hmmm, it has 3 outputs, so i guess they can all be used simultaneously (sp) i dont know how it would work out though

[qualhiveldorf]

I don't think many 5" lcds run off of tv connections, you would have to build some sort of signal conversion. If the tv-out is analog (not sure) then it would be nearly impossible to make your own circuit unless you are very skilled. Digital to digital would be much easier.

[Nero]

Sorta. IIRC when there are two monitors hooked up, the video-out will only output a clone of one of the two monitors. Not very practical.

[Daewood]

the 5 inch lcd i got is out of a psone screen and it has composite input already tested with my gforce 4 mx440 worked good thanks for the input and i was hoping that i could hook up 3 monitors to this card but probly not i guess i will see when it arrives...

[bchur83]

It wont work. ATI's drivers/software will limit you to at most 2 displays on at one time on one card. If you had another PCI video card, then you could add more displays, but on a single card you are limited to 2 simultaneous monitors being displayed.

[Daewood]

is there any other software out there that will alow the ati 9800se and three monitors?

[MadSkillzMan]

nah, most cards have a master head, and the other 2 are slave heads, and when 1 slave head is in use, the other cannot be used at all.

The only exception is matrox cards. they can support 3 and 4 monitors sometimes.