Connecting a 3rd Monitor to a G5...

Hi. I have 2 monitors connected to my g5. Does anyone know what i need to buy in order to connect a third monitor? Thanks, Ben

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I wanted to add a 3rd monitor to my early MacPro that came with the Radeon X1900 XT. I asked and received advice in an earlier post concerning a graphics card that would be compatible with my configuration. The Radeon HD2600XT was an affordable suggestion. I next called the Apple Store and asked them to confirm compatibility. They transferred me to tech support who made the assurance that the 2600XT would work. I conveyed the info to my wife who ordered it for me for Xmas from Apple.
Well, today is Xmas. I installed the card in slot 3, connected the 3rd monitor, and started up. It worked! For about 5 or 10 minutes, until I got into some applications. Then the system froze. I had power over the mouse but nothing else.
I reset the MMR, I zapped the PRAM, I changed the HD2600XT to slot 2, but every time I checked the graphics card in the system profiler, status of the graphics card was "No display connected." I switched monitors, I took all of the monitors off except the one connected to the HD2600XT - I tried this with multiple monitors. Even though the monitor would work for a while before freezing again, any monitor connected to the 2600XT would produce the same message in system profiler - "No display connected." BTW, in froze in many different applications, in case you were wondering.
I called Apple back. Now they are not certain that the X2600 XT is compatible. Now they tell me that the only one they are sure of is the nVidia Quadro FX 4500 - a NOT so affordable alternative. (Found one for "as cheap as" $535).
Can anyone confirm that the Radeon X1900 (which will only operate in slot 1) is compatible with the Radeon HD2600 XT, or vice versa, in an early MacPro (one year old today) - absolutely? Do you suppose Apple will take the 2600 back if it is not? (Do I have a bad card right out of the box? Did I miss anything? Is there anything else I can try? I hesitate to ask this last question but do you think it is the logic board. Everything works fine with the X1900 and 2 monitors so I don't see why it would be the logic board...

Hi,
I'm running a Mac Pro 1.1 quad 2.66 with 12GB of memory and a X1900XT with a HD2600XT. The X1900XT is driving two dell 24" monitors at 1920x1200 and the HD2600XT is driving a HD projector at 1280x768. I have the X1900XT in the bottom slot at 16x and the HD2600XT in the top slot at 8x.
I don't think the lanes are the issue. 1x would be MORE than enough to allow for 2D rendering such as browsing the web. PCIe v1.x is 250MBps per channel (PCIe 2.0 is 500MBps). Let us assume you are running a 1920x1200 desktop and you are watching a full screen video that is using the whole space and it being displayed at 30fps and all textures are changing with each frame. So that would be 1920x1200x32x30 (x by y times bit-depth (millions of colors is 32 bit) times redraw) which works out to be 2,211,840,000 bits, so you divide that by 8 to get bytes, 276,480,000, divide again by 1024 to be KB, 270,000, divide again by 1024 to get MB, which works out to be 263.67 MBps. So you might get a few dropped frames worse case scenario with a 1x channel. However, if you are running 8x you have 1,000MBps to work with which you will never use all of in a 2D draw even with a 30" display at 2560x1600 which would work out to be 468.75MBps. The reason you need the large bandwidth is for things like games where you are not rendering flat 2D textures. 3D textures can go through memory and thus bandwidth quick as you have added a whole-nother axis to the equation.
I don't think power is the issue either. The 300 watts, is 300 watts from the PCIe bus and not the motherboard per say. The X1900XT has an external power molex serving it power there by supplementing it's pull off the bus. The HD2600XT is low enough it doesn't need external power. More over, the reason that the 1900 has external power is that one slot is not allowed to pull more than a certain amount of power, I believe 60 watts, per slot. So with two cards that's only 120 of the 300 watts.
I believe you may have one of the following:
1) A heating issue, especially if you are still running the stock heatsink on the 1900 (it gets HOT, which is why I think the 1900s are having so many issues in the Macs) and the issue may have been triggered by adding the extra heat from the 2600.
2) You could have a hardware issue with either the 2600 or the motherboard. Trying another slot may help with testing the motherboard, testing the 2600 could be a bit more difficult. (I think that's been suggested.)
3) Could be a firmware issue and that could be any number of combination between the firmware on the Mac and the two video cards.
What kind of monitor do you have and are you serious about selling it?
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I will take that advice on board.. I might have to fork out a bit of extra money. Shame I only purchased the 570 gtx a couple of months ago!
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Gainward GTX550Ti 1G DDR5 DVI HDMI
Internet Price:    $111.00
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