Best, CHEAP 8" Monitors for TM MFD's?

twobells · November 29, 2010

Topic says all.

Thanks.

Crasha · December 5, 2010

Bought these YN8088AV as used by Kuky in his steup but dont know if theyre cheapest.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.m748&item=130461224088&viewitem=&_trkparms=clkid%3D5422505792601366173

Succellus · December 6, 2010

Those seem pretty cool. Ill think of them when i ll stat my half assed pit

Avatar72 · December 17, 2010

So to hook those up, I take it I would need to use one of my video ports on a typical present day video card. A typical video card would come with two DVI ports. That would mean one for the main monitor but then you would need two more for each MFD. So would I be forced to but a TH2G adapter or is there something else avaialble?

Kuky · December 18, 2010

You can get second video card (doesn't have to be fast at all) just to connect the monitors to it, the second card will be just like a buypass... or get one of the newer ATI/AMD video cards that has 2x DVI ports and Displayport... those support 3 monitors... actually I am not sure if latest HD6970 can support 4 monitors as it has 2x Mini DisplayPorts and 2x DVI ports (and 1x HDMI port but HDMI port can't be used for this)

Avatar72 · December 18, 2010

Kuky,

Funny you should say that. I'm seriously considering a 3 monitor setup (not including MFDs) with two video cards. Meaning four ports avaialble out of a needed 5. Two DVI ports per video card though would make that a big difficult.

That would be my actual scenario, I was just simplifying the problem for a single card. :)

I have an older 8800GT I can choose not to sell and maybe use that but I wasnt planning on inserting 3 cards into a new rig.

Kuky · December 18, 2010

if you want 3 monitors just for the main view I think you might be better off with Th2g. I remember when I had 2x HD4870 cards in CF I could not get 2 monitors to work each connected to different video card... maybe I just didn't know how to do it back then :noexpression: Maybe better confirm with others that have such setup how it can work

Kirin · February 9, 2011

Errr, Kuky, can you please state why you cannot use the HDMI port for a multimonitor setup? Because that's what I planning to do.

Plan B is to use the 2 Mini-DP for the MFCDs (using DP-VGA adapters). But I read that the screen with the highest resolution has to be on DP. So not sure here either.

Plan C is to put both MFCDs on DVI and the main screen on DP. I don't fancy this too much since I have to get an expensive active DP-DVI adapter plus 2 VGA-DVI adapters.

Any advice?

Kirin · February 9, 2011

BTW, I received following screen yesterday. It works brilliantly so far - big enough to fill the entire Cougar MFD frame. Still struggeling with 3 monitor setup though.

http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160415097718&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

BKLronin · February 9, 2011

I´m planning to get at least on of those. They are cheap and USB cappable.

http://www.pearl.de/a-PX3344-1042.shtml?query=8+tft

chokko · February 9, 2011

reference 6xxx cards wont support 2 of the vga monitors + 3rd via DP

they have a single link and a dual link dvi port.

something amd skimped on to improve speed in other areas

(just quoting what the sapphire tech support told me after spending many failed hours trying to do same setup as kuky, with same vga monitors, on 6950)

the 5870 etc have two of the same (better) dvi ports, and work ok with 2 vgas connected.

Kirin · February 9, 2011

Ha! HDMI on main working great so far.

My setup:

Gfx card: Asus 6950 flashed to 6970 BIOS (2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x miniDP)