Question about Dual Monitor Setup 2

[Ucime]

Hello,

I want to be able to do a dual monitor setup on my pc. Before I spend the money I want to make sure I'm on the right path.

The PC is using a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 motherboard, AMD Athlon XP 2700 CPU, ATI Radeon 7500 video card and 1GB of memory.

I'm just doing programming on the PC (no gaming) so I don't care about real high performance like gamers need. I just find that as I have more and more windows open I'd like to have more screen real estate to see them.

There is only one AGP slot so I was just planning on buying a PCI video card for the 2nd monitor.

Are there any concerns/issues with installing a 2nd video card on this configuration?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[ArizonaGeek]

One thing I will say, if you're doing games, video editing, audio editing (heavy graphics stuff in a nutshell) this is not what you want to do. You'd have better benefits from buying a single, larger monitor.

But if you are doing actual work, this is a perfect solution. It is no different than having a VGA and a DVI and using both, you're still splitting the video RAM. Again, I have a 512mb card so each one is getting 256mb, more than enough for regular work duties.

Also use Ultramon to extend your toolbar across both monitors. Highly recommend it.

Cheers
Rob

The answer is always "PEBKAC!

 

[vacunita]

I said it was counterintuitive, because well I thought all a splitter would do is clone the signal. Did not think the card would pick up the second monitor as a different device and then allow you to extend the desktop, I guess I was wrong.

You learn something new everyday.



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[wahnula]

You learn something new everyday.

So did I. Good one Rob!

Tony

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