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Thats debatable, if you have standard screens the HUD will be under the bezels, if you're rockin' a triplewide setup the HUD will be on the center screen.

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That review is a little outdated. Since then, Matrox has released a new firmware update that allows max 3 x 1680 x 1050 for newer Nvidia cards and max 3 x 1440 x 900 for newer Ati cards (including HD 4000 series).

3x1440x900 isn't that optimal on 3x1920x1200 screens though. It'll get scaler unsharpness. 3x1680x1050 is bearable though on 3x1920x1200. I do 3x1680x1050 on my 3X 24". I'd suggest he test out 3x1440x900 via SoftTH and see if he can stand the blurryness in-game.

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[quote]That review is a little outdated. Since then, Matrox has released a new firmware update that allows max 3 x 1680 x 1050 for newer Nvidia cards and max 3 x 1440 x 900 for newer Ati cards (including HD 4000 series).

3x1440x900 isn't that optimal on 3x1920x1200 screens though. It'll get scaler unsharpness. 3x1680x1050 is bearable though on 3x1920x1200. I do 3x1680x1050 on my 3X 24". I'd suggest he test out 3x1440x900 via SoftTH and see if he can stand the blurryness in-game.

I personally am doing 3 x 1360 x 768 upscaled to 3 x 1920 x 1080 and I find it very acceptable (maybe my eyesight is not that good and doesnt see any unsharpness or maybe the scaler of the HDTVs are just so good to minimize the blurriness).

Anyway, if one cannot accept the upscaling by 24" monitors, one can fall back to 20"/22" monitors. The trade-off between image quality and screen image size is actually very small.

Another option is to get 24-27" 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 monitors that support 1:1 unscaled display of lower resolutions.

If you can accept small black borders instead of scaling blurriness until a "th2g v2" which can do 3x1920x1080/1200.

Or use softth for titles that do work and for which you have the gpu power.