Triple Monitor Setup Help

[SYElise]

Just bought 3 of the Asus VG278HE monitors. However, I have no idea how to set them up with my pc. What cables are needed? Thx

 

[bevo]

What graphics card do you have ? More then likely you can use 3 DVI D cables.

It looks like those monitors come with a DVI-D cable but it probably won't be long enough to hook up 3 of them.

I run mine with a DVI-D cable to two of them and an HDMI cable to my AVR for surround sound, and then another HDMI from my AVR to a monitor.

 

[dice1998]

For the record, just in case it's needed, bevo means these types of cables:

 

[bevo]

Also if the computer had an Nvidia card there is a help page on the Nvidia site that shows exactly how to and what cable to use to get nvidia surround going every way possible, and I imagine AMD has the same thing for eyefinity on their site.

 

[SYElise]

What graphics card do you have ? More then likely you can use 3 DVI D cables.

It looks like those monitors come with a DVI-D cable but it probably won't be long enough to hook up 3 of them.

I run mine with a DVI-D cable to two of them and an HDMI cable to my AVR for surround sound, and then another HDMI from my AVR to a monitor.

GTX 680 4GB card

 

[Casio]

RTFM.

You can work it out.

 

[SYElise]

RTFM.

You can work it out.

You actually felt compelled to post that reply? What a flaming douche nozzle!

 

[Casio]

You actually felt compelled to post that reply? What a flaming douche nozzle!

It's just a waste of space to come and post a whole thread asking how to plug in a monitor. Seems to me like a thinly veiled attempt to gloat about your PC, which is fine but just come out and do it (There are threads for it).

People who don't know how to plug in monitors, don't buy 3 of them, know their model number and GPUs.

If you really didn't know how, in the time you made the thread you could have actually just looked at your Monitor/GPU and Cables and worked it out.

 

[sesselpupser]

You need two DVI-DVI cables and one DVI-HDMI cable. Plug them all in (they only really fit one way), open the Nvidia control panel and in one of the items on the left there should be an option for Configure PhysX and Nvidia Surround or something; Nvidia Surround being the key term as that's what they call their triple monitor thing. Then you have to choose 'configure surround', drag and drop the windows on screen so the order of the numbers match up with the numbers displayed on your monitors, choose whether you want the resolution to compensate for your bezels (I choose not to otherwise games have bits hidden and the bezels themselves are a much bigger distraction than the display being warped by them, if you know what I mean) and that's that.

I worked this out for myself by looking at the ports on my graphics card.

 

[II-zOoLoGy-II]

lol @ casio; love it.

 

[bevo]

You don't have to have a DVI-HDMI cable do you? He could just us a regular HDMI cable. It doesn't really matter either way I guess would work. I just figure most people have some extra HDMI cables laying around.

When you get the cables get extra long. I ordered 3 10 foot ones and ended up getting another 15 foot one for the 3rd later on. It makes it easier to organize the thick cables if you have some extra length to work with.

A tip for the 680 and iracing you might want to try is to disable AA in the game and use either the nividia control panel or nvidia inspector to set the AA. It seems to look much better this way and iracing runs smoother also. You should be able to max out iracing excpet for 2 pass shadows, higher detail in mirrors. You could even run both of those on almost all the tracks excpect spa.

Come to think of it though you have 144hz monitors. You will probably have to turn some graphics down to get to 144fps to get the best use at that refresh rate with triple monitors. Anything you can though you should try and set in the nividia control panel because from what I have seen in iracing it has always given me better results then to do it ther then in iracing.

For casio, he may be gloating, but I bought 3 of them and had no idea how to get them working right. I have not one friened that takes PC gaming to the level I do, and was completely blind going into it with only forums to help me. I also spent about 2 hours one day trying to get all 3 to work because I didn't have the cables going to the right DVI outputs on my cards. I had never seen any info on having to have them in the same spot on both cards when you went DVI-DVI-HDMI but I later learned after hours of trying it that you do. There are a few little tricks to getting triples to work right, but really it is very simple and mostly plug and play with walk through instructions through the nvidia control panel.

I always try to learn everything I can for a new project before it gets to my house. The less trouble shooting over easily answered questions by someone who has done it before the better.

 

[SYElise]

It's just a waste of space to come and post a whole thread asking how to plug in a monitor. Seems to me like a thinly veiled attempt to gloat about your PC, which is fine but just come out and do it (There are threads for it).

People who don't know how to plug in monitors, don't buy 3 of them, know their model number and GPUs.

If you really didn't know how, in the time you made the thread you could have actually just looked at your Monitor/GPU and Cables and worked it out.

What a pathetic jaded sob you are. I feel sorry for you on so many levels.

You don't have to have a DVI-HDMI cable do you? He could just us a regular HDMI cable. It doesn't really matter either way I guess would work. I just figure most people have some extra HDMI cables laying around.

I just searched through the office junk drawer and found a Bizlink Display Port to Dual Link DVI-D Converter. Is that what you mean?

When you get the cables extra long. I ordered 3 10 foot ones and ended up getting another 15 foot one when for the 3rd later on. It makes it easier to organize the thick cables if you have some extra length to work with.

A tip for the 680 and iracing you might want to try is to disable AA in the game and use either the nividia control panel or nvidia inspector to set the AA. It seems to look much better this way and iracing runs smoother also.

Great tips. I will post a separate build thread after I hook everything up.

You need two DVI-DVI cables and one DVI-HDMI cable. Plug them all in (they only really fit one way), open the Nvidia control panel and in one of the items on the left there should be an option for Configure PhysX and Nvidia Surround or something; Nvidia Surround being the key term as that's what they call their triple monitor thing. Then you have to choose 'configure surround', drag and drop the windows on screen so the order of the numbers match up with the numbers displayed on your monitors, choose whether you want the resolution to compensate for your bezels (I choose not to otherwise games have bits hidden and the bezels themselves are a much bigger distraction than the display being warped by them, if you know what I mean) and that's that.

I worked this out for myself by looking at the ports on my graphics card.

Thanks. This is my first build so I'm a bit of a

 

[Azuremen]

What a pathetic jaded sob you are. I feel sorry for you on so many levels.

Actually, he is being pretty spot on. Setting up 3 monitors in this day and age is very straight forward, and anyone that has invested $2000 USD just for their display setup.

I mean, really, we aren't stupid. And we'd like to assume you can figure out how to Google and/or look at the cables involved.

Not to mention throwing out insults left and right doesn't really help your case. At all.

EDIT: Also, congrats on spending ~$1500 on TFT monitors.

 

[SYElise]

Actually, he is being pretty spot on. Setting up 3 monitors in this day and age is very straight forward, and anyone that has invested $2000 USD just for their display setup.

I mean, really, we aren't stupid. And we'd like to assume you can figure out how to Google and/or look at the cables involved.

Not to mention throwing out insults left and right doesn't really help your case. At all.

First, I was responding to his "RTFM" post.

Second, forums are a place to inquire and share information. If you have nothing to add to a thread, ignore it and move on. No one posting an honest question deserves to be lectured by some coward lurker.

Third, how is cost remotely relevant to a technical question?

Fourth, what is "we aren't stupid" referring to? Do you believe my post is all part of some master scheme I am hatching to brag about having 3 monitors and a decent video card? Grow up.

 

[dice1998]

RTFM.

You can work it out.

Have my babies. 👍

 

[Submerged]

Third, how is cost remotely relevant to a technical question?

The issue is, you've dropped a whole load of cash on THREE monitors.

For most people, they would have researched the reasons for having three monitors, they would have looked into how they could connect it to their computer to display on all three monitors the way they wanted to.

If you had phrased your first post as:

"I have recently brought three monitors and I am struggling to set up the monitors in the way I would want them to be in. I have decided to have them all in landscape orientation, however I need to check what cables they require and the software setting.

I had looked on google and the software package (Nvida Control) and I am still a bit confused

<Specs of the computer>

Can anyone help?"

then it would have been received better than your original post, as it is outlining the reason for your problem and a reasonable request for help to identity the cables and steps to make it work for you. Additionally, by putting down that you had researched it beforehand (if you had done that) makes all of us think it must be something a bit unusual for it to cause problems.

Generally, with computer hardware nowadays, its generally a plug and play stuff, so for things to go wrong is pretty odd.

 

[SYElise]

The issue is, you've dropped a whole load of cash on THREE monitors.

For most people, they would have researched the reasons for having three monitors, they would have looked into how they could connect it to their computer to display on all three monitors the way they wanted to.

If you had phrased your first post as:

"I have recently brought three monitors and I am struggling to set up the monitors in the way I would want them to be in. I have decided to have them all in landscape orientation, however I need to check what cables they require and the software setting.

I had looked on google and the software package (Nvida Control) and I am still a bit confused

<Specs of the computer>

Can anyone help?"

then it would have been received better than your original post, as it is outlining the reason for your problem and a reasonable request for help to identity the cables and steps to make it work for you. Additionally, by putting down that you had researched it beforehand (if you had done that) makes all of us think it must be something a bit unusual for it to cause problems.

Generally, with computer hardware nowadays, its generally a plug and play stuff, so for things to go wrong is pretty odd.

This is silly. I'll drop it.

 

[bevo]

I'm really surprised you guys jumped on him like this. Seems like I have seen alot of worse threads started then this one. Triple monitors are fairly easy to setup, but there are some tricks to get them running just right. Some games are better with a native resolution, some are better using an adjusted one through surround, some are better by turning surround off and just using one monitor. He just asked what cables he needs. Some monitors take more then just plugging them in. If he had 1080p monitors you could use HDMI, but if they were a higher resolution HDMI wouldn't be the best choice. You also want to try and stay with as close to 3 of the same cords as you can. Using all DVI-D would be better then mixing them up with one HDMI, one display port and another DVI-D.

Those are also 144hz monitors, how is he to know if maybe display port is better for a 144hz rate?

I mean it's not completely cut and dry. All you guys know computers. I'm sure when you started there were some basic things you wanted to double check on before you started spending cash on other parts of the build.

As far as gloating about it, who cares. The guy is building what he says is his first gaming PC and is getting triple monitors. I imagine he's pretty excited about it. I know I was when I first went triples and wanted to talk and read about it as much as I could. Most people are probably like me and don't know to many real life people crazy enough to spend the kind of cash you have to, to build the systems some build for racing sims.

I don't know, it just seems odd that he got the treatment he did in this thread. Usually GTP is about the best place there is to come for help, and not be given the usual internet treatment.

 

[Pako]

My grandma used to say if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. Easy enough to offer help or quietly pass by.

What Casio meant by RTFM was you should check out this thread:
http://www.geforce.com/optimize/guides/how-to-correctly-configure-geforce-gtx-680-surround#1

This is also a handy configuration tool to help you figure out how what to plug in where. The 680's aren't as particular, but with starting to run multiple cards, it does make a difference where you plug in the cables.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/3dvision-surround/system-requirements

 

[Casio]

Those are also 144hz monitors, how is he to know if maybe display port is better for a 144hz rate?

It's in the manual. Page 3-10.

 

[Azuremen]

First, I was responding to his "RTFM" post.

You mean he made pretty valid point about how you could find all this information in a manual?

Second, forums are a place to inquire and share information. If you have nothing to add to a thread, ignore it and move on. No one posting an honest question deserves to be lectured by some coward lurker.

How is a member with almost 8000 posts a lurker? And he gave you a very valid answer to your very basic question.

Third, how is cost remotely relevant to a technical question?

Most of the time, people invest more research relative to the price of the items. $2000 isn't pocket change to most people in general, and these are rather specific monitors you've picked up here. One would assume you took any time at all to understand what would be involved in this setup.

I'm still baffled why anyone would spend $500 on TFT displays when IPS is so wildly superior it isn't a comparison.

Fourth, what is "we aren't stupid" referring to? Do you believe my post is all part of some master scheme I am hatching to brag about having 3 monitors and a decent video card? Grow up.

Frankly, this happens often. And the we aren't stupid bit was more of a "stop insulting us because we gave our opinions."

Also, telling me to grow up when you are tossing out "flaming douche nozzle" to a relatively valid opinion speaks volumes. Generates a lovely image of a teenager with his parents' bankcard buying whatever he feels like.

I'm really surprised you guys jumped on him like this.

I only jumped in because he felt the need to toss out insults left and right.