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Hi guys,

My pending annual PC upgrade affair is a three monitor display, but I am getting a bit bogged down with the types of connectors.

My Graphics card will do 3 x monitors fine, that's partly why I got it. It has 2 x DVI, I have attached an image to show what they look like (in the manual they look nothing like this).

Now as far as I can tell DVI-D Cables will work in DVI-I sockets. I found for example that a Single Link DVI-D works fine in my DVI-I Dual link port...

All bloody confusing.

So I have my eye on this monitor : BenQ GL2450E x 3

That appear , from the description, to be DVI-D.

So to start with I can presumably use 3 x DVI-D Dual Link cables ?

Or should I use DVI-D Single Links x 3 ?

BTW, the third DVI cable connects through a HDMI- DVI adapter.

Can anyone make sense of this ?

I tried Sapphire, but they quoted from a specification that does not match my card....

Thanks for any pointers :)

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Why have a monitor when you can have a shimmering air display.



I like the tech but not sure about the shimmering bit.

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http://news.yahoo.com/just-neigh-horsemeat-burgers-horrifies-uk-161545597.html

While some are totally put off others seem to be enjoying it. :scratch-head:

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It appears NASA and ESA are going to collaborate to make a manned moon/asteroid/Mars craft.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21044408

We're almost upto 1968 achivements.

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I have recently read the first 3 books of Markus Heitz Dwarves Quadrilogy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Heitz

I have found these books a good fun read and difficult to put down, I especially like his willingness to kill off what you think are main characters rather than making the seem almost invulnerable as some fantasy authors do.

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It is with great sadness I annouce that the last flying Avro Vulcan XH558 will be embarking on it's final season of display flying in 2013:

http://www.aviationnews.eu/2012/11/02/final-season-announced-for-last-flying-vulcan/

I just hope I can get to see her this year :(

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When Microsoft first announced the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I did some quick figuring, and found out that, based on past performance and technical issues, this OS was doomed to fall under the "Microsoft Curse", where every other OS they released would suck*, and each "cursed" OS would suck at an order of magnitude worse than the last (and let's face it, Vista was pretty horrible), but I fired up my VirtualBox software, and decided to give it a go, anyway. Sadly, I hated most of what I saw. First off, where the F%&* was my Start Menu? And secondly, what did they DO to my Desktop?!?!?! :o Little did I realize that those two were the same thing. There were a lot of interesting things going on, but I was too blinded by the entire Start Screen thing to see them objectively. Whatever the reason, I decided that Win 8 was cursed, and simply gave up on it.

Then I hear that Microsoft is practically giving Win 8 away (and the "Pro" edition, no less!) for a ridiculous price of $40USD, and I was tempted, but I stuck to my decision not to be seduced by the price, or all of the reviews of "it loads crazy fast!" and such. After all, it was only a matter of time before the world realized that I was right, Win 8 was cursed, and I would become vindicated for not turning to the Dark Side. Then Mom went ahead and succumbed, botched the install on her laptop, and I had to fix it.

The fix was actually a simple matter of updating the graphics driver, and was fairly simple to do. Mom had an HDMI monitor attached to the laptop, and I was beginning to notice some things with a multiple screen setup that I never would have noticed with Win 8 in a single screen, VM environment: They've FINALLY started treating each monitor as a separate entity! :waveJump:

That was the final blow. I broke down, scrabbled up all my pennies, and timidly handed Uncle Bill my $39.99USD and asked, "Please Sir. Might I have some more?" From that moment on, my downfall was assured.

I now have Windows 8 Pro installed on my desktop computer. The horrible trials and sufferings that I described when I went from XP Pro to Win 7 were practically non-existent, the computer still has the same file layout and structure, and the install process (not including app/program installation of course; that's still ongoing) took less than 2 1/2 hours, total, and had only one minor glitch - again, a video card problem that required updated drivers; go figure!

I still hate the Start Screen, and quite likely always will, but all of the other "plusses" so far outweigh that one "minus" that I don't think I'll regret having made the switch. So as you can see, I've turned to the Dark Side, but that's ok. It's better over here. :D :P









*Note: The curse only seems to apply to consumer products, rather than including enterprise/server editions

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