Widescreen Gaming Forum

Title says it all. Should I upgrade?

Sorry if this is a noobish question. I have not seen anything on this.

Kinda depends. Are you happy with your image quality now? Are you playing at your monitors native res? If you answered negatively to both, then it may be worth it. DVI certainly helps with the scaling. The one make/break addition to the DTH2Go is the Bezel Management. if the misalignment of the bezels on analog gives you heartburn, then it may be worth it. If it doesn't, I'd say probably not.

There a number of benefits that the Digital TripleHead2go has over the Analogue version.

the two big benefits are bezel management and resolution support. Bezel management is pretty self-explanatory.

The Analogue TripleHead2Go supports five 4:3 and 5:4 triplehead modes (mode = resolution + refresh rate) and two 16:9 and 15:9 widescreen triplehead modes. There is no support for 16:10 widescreen modes. The Digital TripleHead2Go supports eleven 4:3 and 5:4 triplehead modes and five 16:9, 15:9 and 16:10 widescreen modes.

Overall, the Digital TripleHead2Go is a big boon for CRT users, because most of the extra modes are a result of many triplehead resolutions offered at 75 and 85 Hz refresh rates. The Digital TripleHead2Go also offers the 4080x768 resolution, which supports 3 720p HDTVs.

There are also twnety-one dualhead modes supported by the Digital TripleHead2Go, compared to the two dualhead modes supported by the Analogue TripleHead2Go.


Of course the Digital TripleHead2Go has a fully-digital signal chain if you chose to use it this way. Depending on your current image quality, this may or may not matter.

I had an analog unit for a day (accidentally ordered the wrong one) and returned it. From my experience the digital version is so much clearer, doesn't require manually "auto-adjusting" the image if I change resolutions, and (as JKeefe mentioned) supports more resolutions. I have no doubt about which unit I like better. If it's in your budget I'd recommend the upgrade.

Thank you guys for you replies.

Well I am using 3 of the LG 20.1 L206WTY-BF 3000:1 2ms monitors. I am currently in 3840x1024 and I like the way it looks. I spoke with the Matrox reps and they said that the highest resolution that I would get would be 3840x1024.

That is what put me at this quandary, why should I pay more? I am a gamer and if I can get a game to look better then that makes me happy but if I am only getting bezel management out of it then I don't know if I should drop $320.00.

You're most welcome.

If what you have works for you then there's no sense spending extra on another unit (though if you sell yours it might not cost that much extra).

Incidentally, Try out GridMove (Link) - I found it helps me a lot. TH2G grid here: (Link)

Edit: For what it's worth: I don't use the bezel management either.