Dual/Tripple 19" LCD Monitors for Designing?

Viewsonic is good, I like my VX2025wm a lot (1680 x 1050 FTW!).

Dual displays are nice. At work I use a dual 17" setup, at home I have a single 20" widescreen, and both are great in their own way. I prefer the widescreen, even though the dual displays technically have a higher total resolution and screen area.

For AGP, you're kind of limited in what you can use. If you have a higher total resolution than 1600 x 1200, I would recommend no less than 512MB of video RAM. And there aren't many video cards that have 512MB on an AGP bus that would also provide the power you need. For modeling, you would ideally have a Quadro or FireGL, but they're not really available in AGP as far as I know.

You need 512MB of video memory, an AGP bus, and two DVI connections. The only card newegg has is the 6800XT, which quite frankly is not a good card. It's a weakend version of the 6800, which is decent but not that great compared to the GF7-series.

I would really suggest getting a PCIe motherboard to replace your AGP one, if you can afford it. If this is your work machine, the increase in productivity will definitely make up for the extra money you spend on it. And since you're willing to buy 2 nice 19" displays, I think you should be willing to go the extra mile and make this a major upgrade.

Just out of curiosity, did you buy or build this computer?

Well, it would drive the displays, and it should be faster than your current card, but probably not by much. It's not a great card, like I said in my earlier post, but it might be enough to hold you off until your next upgrade.

No, at that resolution you'll need the extra video memory, especially since the card is pretty slow.

Since you're going to put quite a bit of cash into this computer, why don't you get a PCIe motherboard with a 7900GTX and the two monitors now, and a second card later? You were planning to purchase a pair of GX2s in the near future anyway, so why not make a major upgrade sooner rather than later? It would be worth it to do it now, because a 6800XT will only hinder your productivity.

Although I am glad this machine isn't your primary work machine .

I do what you seem to do... and have a Dell 24" screen. I couldn't live with a big bar down the center of a dual monitor set up. Get a 24" or 30"LCD and you'll be happier.

I have a 7900GT (volt modded) and can push many games at 1900x1200 with most settings maxed. No problem. Turning down shadows and anti-alias helps and I hardly can tell the difference.

Too bad he's not a gamer.

Ideally, you should get a Quadro. Those are great for 3D modeling and stuff (I work in a visualization department).

You might want to consider matrox's stuff. They have a device that lets you hook up 2-3 displays to a single card.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/0 [...] _displays/
Might be cheaper than getting a better vid card...

As for choosing a monitor, I'd suggest goign to a store and looking at them side by side. Then you can tell if you don't like certain aspects of the monitors, like color especially.