Ferrari 4000 and two external TFTs?

[noskill]

Hi everyone,

I want to get Ferrari 4005 during next weeks or so as my desktop replacement. Specifications looks fine for me and I love that stylish design.

I'm a software developer and I have two 17" TFT panels attached to X850 via DVI connector. This solutions works just fine and worked fine too when I had 9800 with 1 VGA and 1 DVI (my TFT can connection via DVI/VGA).

Of course I would love to use both panels with my Ferrari, however, it doesn't seem clear for me even after reading many reviews in forums. Ferrari has both DVI and VGA outs and as I've read in one review, you can attach your TFT via DVI. This way you will have two desktops, one on laptop TFT and one on external TFT.

Let's suppose I did that and I'm running 1 external TFT connected via DVI to laptop. How about VGA port? Can I attach secondary external panel to it? (and yeah, this way I will have three desktops). I was unable to find any information if you can attach two monitors to VGA and DVI at the same time.

I've seen this lappy in my local store, but manager said they won't let me test this idea.

If this is not going to work I will buy DualHead2Go from Matrox (Ferrari 4K is compatible with their hardware), but I'd like to save on this purchase and rather connect external panels directly to laptop, if possible.

What do you think? Will this work or not?

Hope there's someone who tried that already... TIA.

[wombatten]

See this thread.

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=108335

[noskill]

Originally Posted by wombatten

See this thread.

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=108335

Wow, thanks!

[indiekiduk]

Yeh there would be no point in having a VGA port as an addition to a DVI port if it wasnt capable of being a 3rd display. Since DVI has pins for VGA too and there are adaptors available.

[Sarc]

One thing that the other thread did not explicetly clarify is that you will not be able to run three independent desktops off of the Ferrari 400x at the same time.

One of the outputs, either DVI/VGA will be a clone of the built in display.
The ATI X700 core itself does not have the hardware to display three different desktops at once. Or at-least the Catalyst software doesn't allow it to.