Matrox TripleHead2Go Three-Monitor Graphics Expansion - Digital Edition T2G-D3D-IF

A super product in every respect. Extremely simple hook up, software was a breeze, and I like the fact the company informs you before you purchase about optimal performance requiring 3 of the same monitors. With the excellent instructions I was able to set my system up in less than 30 minutes. The unit came with a USB power cord and both analog and digital cables. Now I am currently running a Dell Latitude E6410 Laptop with existing 15" monitor, a Dell 23" monitor, and 2 NEOVO 15" LCD monitors...three different "optimum resolutions" and the triplehead has the capability to make it all work. This is my company work station. I am so pleased I plan to buy a second triplehead for my home office. Super product!!

I would not recommend this product unless you have a couple conditions satisfied:1. That you intend to dedicate the product to a particular hardware configuration, and not constantly change to different monitors, etc.2. That you have a powerful enough graphics processor GPU in your source computer.I purchased this product to extend my work laptop screen real-estate. As touted in specifications, the product gives you one extra display, that is stretched across multiple monitors. What I did not realize, is that the GPU on my laptop, would not support high resolutions in that extended display. Matrox does make a utility, that will figure out what resolutions can be supported, based on your GPU, but good luck getting the top resolution supported. I FULLY RECOMMEND running this utility before you get the product, or you may be sorely disappointed. Again, don't expect to get that top resolution -- it's partially dependent on the monitors you run with it, based on the variety of refresh rates and resolutions supported. Old crappy monitors will give you less options. BUT WAIT -- there's more -- I need to only run a 3rd monitor some of the time (when training people), and most of the time, I only need two monitors. Well, let me tell you...the setup software is extremely temperamental. After contact with support I was finally found out, if you connect only two monitors, you need to use output 1 and 3...if you plug into output 1 and 2, it will never finish configuration properly, and act like a monitor is missing. I can partially understand that (think about the old SCSI BUS termination days), but nowhere does it tell you this. After I finally got this thing working with 2 monitors (at a crappy y axis resolution of 800), I left for the night, and my laptop did it's sleep mode thing. When I got back, I might as well have been starting from scratch the multi-monitor config was completely hosed...which was a serious setback, given all the BS I had to endure to get this thing working properly. I rebooted and expected things to return somewhat to normal, but no dice. SO...the setup utilities. I understand that you can't anticipate every possible config and hardware combination, but the Matrox config software 'itself' comes with no documentation, and the 'in program' errors and logs are not at all useful to figuring out problems. You are pretty much left to looking up articles and monkeying around with this thing endlessly. SO...let me be clear: I am not trashing this product, but it does have MANY idiosyncrasies. It's not for the faint-hearted -- I have over 20 years experience in very technical IT areas, and this product still left me very frustrated. To it's credit, I have seen it perform terrific in defense command posts where the hardware configuration is static, and high end graphic cards are employed. Bottom-line...you absolutely need to pair this with a desktop/laptop with a decent graphics processor, and monitors/projectors that support a wide variety of resolutions and refresh rates.

Bought to use with three ASUS VN279Q monitors for flight simming. The setup is excellent. I have it working with the HDMI ports on the monitors, the cables came with the monitors so really did not need to by any extra cables. I did try to go from DVI to DisplayPort with adapters but that did not show a signal at all. I really did not need to get the adapters as stated above.

I'm disappointed in that I couldn't get the T2G-D3D-IF unit to work on my Dell Inspiron 8200 with 3 Samsung 213t monitors. It only passes the signal to 1 of the three. Only after the purchase of the expansion box did I find out that my computer and graphics card was not compatible. I had to go the the Matrox website, search around for a compatibility checker software download, and then find out that my system would not work with the unit.Yes, I should have checked for compatibility before making the order since my experience is that nothing involving computer peripherals ever goes the way it is supposed to. But, since I have a DVI/VGA graphics card that drives two monitors, why would it not be compatible with an add-on box. Isn't the target customer for multiple monitors a guy like me with an older system that wants to expand his graphics display without having to go into the guts of the PC and add a new graphics card? After all, when I actually buy a new PC, I'll get whatever multiple monitor capability that I want.Oh, well. Yet another lesson learned in practice bleeding.

I use the TripleHead2Go(TH2G) with Microsoft Flight Simulator (FSX) and it greatly enhances the FSX experience by giving you a much wider field of view. The TH2G digital version is relatively easy to set up and it has some great features, such as Bezel Management (not available in the analog version of TH2G) which, for games and simulations, aligns the single image that appears on all 3 screens. Even for non-gamers, it greatly increases the overall utility of your computer; for example, you could have 3 different web sights displayed simultaneously, one on each monitor, or you could be surfing the web on the center monitor and have two separate documents displayed on the two side monitors.One minor issue is that when in gaming mode, the images and objects displayed in the two side monitors have a somewhat "stretched" appearance, making them appear slightly longer or wider than if they appeared in the center monitor. But this is not the fault of TH2G, it's a function of the way computer displayed objects appear peripherally to the game player.Overall, the TH2G is a great product for any computer user, especially for gamers and simmers. Once you fly a simulated Learjet on 3 screens, you'll never go back to a single screen again.