Graphic Card for Third Monitor

[JSt0rm]

I run 2 videocards outputting to 4 monitors. The 5770 will get you 3 monitors but you need a powered display port adapter for the minidisplay ports. If you dont have a powered adapter you can only run 2 monitors off the card. Apple sells one that is over course over priced. Scour newegg to find the correct one. I think it needs to deliver 5volts

[rcutz]

Originally Posted by JSt0rm

I run 2 videocards outputting to 4 monitors. The 5770 will get you 3 monitors but you need a powered display port adapter for the minidisplay ports. If you dont have a powered adapter you can only run 2 monitors off the card. Apple sells one that is over course over priced. Scour newegg to find the correct one. I think it needs to deliver 5volts

Hi JStorm. Thanks, I finally find the correct info regarding the 5770. Here it is:
Mac Pro (Early 2009), Mac Pro (Mid 2010): Supported display configurations to those with the same ideas/needs

anybody who could share some experience with multiple video cards or the black magic?

thanks!

[Seabornstudio]

I run macpro with
Gt120 graphic card
For 2 desktop display

Blackmagic decklink studio
1hdmi tv
1sdi monitor
1rgb monitor

Before i get the black magic, i was using a second gt120 graphic card
And place the quicktime video in the tv screen.

Now i get real video out and it's really usefull for client aprobation

It's frustrating when client ask is it really looking like this (about funal video)

[ggegan]

The AMD Radeon HD 5870 works on Macs with Snow Leopard or Lion. It has two DVID outputs and one HDMI output. It takes up 2 PCIe slots.

[rcutz]

Originally Posted by ggegan

The AMD Radeon HD 5870 works on Macs with Snow Leopard or Lion. It has two DVID outputs and one HDMI output. It takes up 2 PCIe slots.

Thanks ggegan.
I found some posts on DUC with users of the black magic intensity, very, very happy. Considering it seriously.

[ggegan]

The Intensity Pro is a video card, so it will display video only, not the computer desktop. Graphic cards display the computer desktop, so you can display any application windows, as well as Quicktime video. The Quicktime video will have a frame around it and be resizable. I have both an Intensity Pro video card and the AMD Radeon HD 5870 graphics card in my HD Native Mac Pro, so that means I can run three computer desktop screens and two mirrored HDMI video screens.

[rcutz]

Originally Posted by ggegan

The Intensity Pro is a video card, so it will display video only, not the computer desktop. Graphic cards display the computer desktop, so you can display any application windows, as well as Quicktime video. The Quicktime video will have a frame around it and be resizable. I have both an Intensity Pro video card and the AMD Radeon HD 5870 graphics card in my HD Native Mac Pro, so that means I can run three computer desktop screens and two mirrored HDMI video screens.

Hi ggegan! This is the feedback I`m looking for. Thanks!

I want to be economic on that matter, so I have that choice: work with one Radeon (5770, 5870, etc...) and put the QuickTime in third desktop monitor, like I do today with the second monitor. Or go to the Intensity, keeping my actual graphic card (that give me 2 desktop monitors) and playing the video thru the video card.

Thanks for the clarify that point graphic card vs video card, I`m aware of it even if I can`t "elaborated" that way.

3 monitors plus a video card, would b great... but now... I need be economic.