Out of Pod Experience

I have already purchased a replacement graphics card; the Nvidea 670 4GB and it seems to run nicely. I have replaced the cooling unit (no longer 70db when I start Eve but a more pleasant 17 db)

The last few things I need are three monitors. I am looking at these; would these work with the card and what's your comment about choosing these?


The card has two DVI outputs and a DisplayPort. From what I can understand I can make the DisplayPort into a DVI connection so then I can run the three monitors.

The only game I play is Eve (only because Myst just doesn't work any more) and I use the machine for software development so it's a bit of a workhorse.

So, would these monitors do? If not, please why not and what should I look for in particular? The problem is that I live right in the middle of nowhere and the nearest screen emporium where they have monitors to gawp at is over an hour away and their range of monitors is, well, poor. So it's a case of being guided by reviews and, well, you lot.

Comments, if you don't mind. Any feedback would be appreciated.

- Myfanwy

Thanks, Mars,.

I won't be using the monitors for sound as I have my own sound set up, which I should have explained.

Currently I go from USB -> Digital/Analogue Convertor (HRT Music Streamer II) -> Mission Cyrus II amp -> Wharfedale speakers. Wiring throughout is van Damme cabling wherever possible.

This does away with Windows mangling my sound (the DAC and external amp knocks the socks off most sound cards) and because it doesn't have Windows chopping up the sound it sounds good. And, besides, I have my music collection all ripped to .flac so this is my listening station.

In other words, the first thing that I do when I get monitors is to turn off the speakers. I prefer things to done one thing and one thing well. I let my speakers do the speaking and the monitors do the showing.

The only thing is that I wanted to be sure was that my card could drive these monitors, which I suspected, and thanks to your kind feedback, it seems that I am right.

I will give it a few days and then it'll be my birthday and this will be the perfect present to myself.

Thanks again for the time that you took to reply.

- Myfanwy

Yup 3 dvi will boot those monitors and GPU should support it,monitors are looking fine i didn't see that they are mountable tho..maybe something to consider.