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Greetings,

Just until recently, I owned Tyan Tigre MP board that was equipped with
Matrox G550 AGP and Matrox G550 PCI. Due to some requirements, I had to
change the board and migrated to Intel 975XBX2 and could (logically)
remain only with G550 PCI. Unfortunately, due to, now extended, nature of
my job, single PCI video card does not meet my requirements, in addition
that it has to drive two large CRT monitors, and is not ready for new LCD
screens with resolutions larger than 1280x, that are coming to my desk
soon.

Therefore, I planed to migrate on PCI-E graphic cards. I would like to
have dedicated GPU per monitor; now two, soon three, that is three cards
all together, since MMS/QID, Quadro NVS, Xentera GT, FireMV and similar
solutions are currently way beyond my budget. So, I considered low low low
end ATI/nVidia segment, that would even suit me better since i might have
some (light, though) 3D requirements in future.

Now, is anyone aware whether that setup would work well? As far as I can
tell, my board has 3 PCI-E 16x connectors (at least physical), so I doubt
there would be any problems, however, are nVidia/ATI drivers "mature"
enough to handle something like that? Would it be prudent to wait for new
ATI models, for potential price drop in low end segment for both
nVidia/ATI? And further more is it realistic to expect low need models
such as 7100 series for new 8xxx series in period of few next months?

TIA!

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