Matrox TripleHead2Go is definitely a products you should try to remember. Matrox Parhelia literally astounded the world with its support for Surround Gaming, a technology that made it posible to play games over 3 monitors for an extra wide and surrounding field of vision. What made the impact less dramatic was Parhelia’s poor performance. A fact that that made it hard to actually make use of the Surround Gaming feature, the performance simply wasn’t enough. TripleHead2Go is the answer to this though as Parhelia is not a part of the picture, while the support for Surround Gaming still is with TripleHead2Go. TripleHead2Go is small apparatus that makes it possible to connect 3 monitors with a resolution at 3840x1024px, powered by any video card, even SLI!
TripleHead2Go is optimal with three 19″ LCD monitors at 1280x1024px and the technology works just fine for anything from games to CAD drawings and such. TripleHead2Go is what Matrox calls a Graphics eXpansion Module (GXM) and the really great is that TripleHead2Go doesn’t affest the graphical performance. You connect a cable from the video card’s output to TripleHead2Go that then divide the signal to all three monitors. The rendering is handled by the computer’s video card and it is there up to the computer to supply enough performance for 3840x1024px. TripleHead2Go supports 1920x480px, 2400x600px, 3072×768 as well.
Since the technology supports multi GPU technoogies such as SLI (also Crossfire?) there shouldn’t be any problems with supplying enough performance, as long as you can afford it. Which shouldn’t be a problem though if you can afford to buy three 19″ LCD monitors.
TripleHead2Go seems to be a very promising product that will be easy to install and supported by over 150 different PC games for a complete “Surround Gaming experience”. The price is $299, which isn’t all that expensive, but at the same time you need other hardware to make it work. We hope to see more of TripleHead2Go soon and we assume that we are not the only ones that are interseted in Matrox new technology.
